21.   An Arthur Andersen survey of those who attended the Red Herring conference showed interest in speech recognition, mobile computing and Internet technologies.

22.   At present, speech recognition software is an application product, sold separately, made by companies including Dragon Systems and IBM.

23.   Automated call centers are only the most obvious way speech recognition will be used.

24.   Both of these systems combine advanced speech recognition with voice mail, teleconferencing, and an address book.

25.   A camera built into the dashboard also tracks your lip movements to improve the accuracy of the speech recognition.

26.   After years of development and promises, speech recognition technology has finally emerged as viable, aided by ever more powerful computer chips to decode spoken words.

27.   All of these advanced features will require breakthroughs in computing speed, speech synthesis, speech recognition, and artificial intelligence.

28.   But experts say true speech recognition is still several years away.

29.   But speech recognition is not so simple.

30.   Computers can now recognize what is said to them, and even talk back, thanks to recent advances in speech recognition programming.