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Speech Recognition
•Question #2: What words did the speaker intend to express with those sounds? P(words|signal)
–“It’s not a porch.  It’s a …”
–homophones (e.g. “0+2=2. One and one sum to two too.”)
–noise (focusing amidst multiple conversations)
–segmentation (Three string walk into a bar…)
–dialects (tow-may-tow, tow-mah-tow)
–coarticulation (tah-may-tow, tow-may-tow)