11.   But he is confident that moving onto continuous speech should be straightforward, because most speech recognition software finds this less of a challenge than spelling.

12.   Continuous speech recognition systems are also available from Philips Electronics NV and Dragon Systems Inc.

13.   Drefyus said he was also impressed by new software for continuous speech recognition that allows you to dictate to your computer.

14.   Getting computers to decipher continuous speech, as opposed to isolated words, has been difficult because meanings often change depending on context.

15.   Industry analysts expect continuous speech systems, like the one IBM is expected to unveil tomorrow, to vastly expand the market for speech recognition products.

16.   More powerful computers and software that could recognize continuous speech instead of a staccato, word-by-word recitation began to make a difference.

17.   Recognizing large-vocabulary continuous speech, the way we normally talk, has long seemed a goal unreachable until some Jetsonian future.

18.   Successful recognition of continuous speech, the way people normally talk, still seems a long, long way off.

19.   The new product is expected to simplify the use of the software using a technique called continuous speech recognition.

20.   These services are made possible by breakthroughs that allow computers to understand continuous speech and complex sentences rather than scripted, one-word answers.