71.   The group will supervise the desktop applications business, consumer software, the new on-line service, and research in fields like speech recognition.

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

73.   The phone uses a special system for speeding up text entry and also has speech recognition.

74.   The noise makes speech recognition much more difficult.

75.   The result is that speech recognition is fast becoming mainstream technology.

76.   Thirty years ago, for instance, speech recognition was an artificial-intelligence problem of the first order.

77.   Using speech recognition technology from IBM, the player can now use voice commands to direct the action.

78.   With the recent developments in speech recognition, and despite some enthusiasm, analysts and experts say it still needs to get better.

79.   Although some users report good results, experiences so far suggest, however, that speech recognition programs still have a long way to go to become really useful.

80.   But analysts say the biggest goal is to get the general public interested in speech recognition.