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                          March 2001 Features
                          ARTICLE ONE 
                          An Introduction to Speech Recognition  By Kimberlee A. Kemble 
                          Have you ever talked to your computer? (And no, yelling at it when your Internet connection goes down or making polite chit-chat with it as you wait for all 25MB of that very important file to download doesn't count). If you have, then you've used a technology known as speech recognition. 
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                          ARTICLE TWO 
                          The Fundamentals of Text-to-Speech Synthesis  By Juergen Schroeter 
                          This article aims at building a fundamental understanding of the latest developments in speech synthesis technologies, such as why it is so difficult to achieve high-quality synthetic speech, and what is the state-of-the-art. After all, if your TTS is too low a quality, users may abandon the call, never to come back. 
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                          ARTICLE THREE 
                          An Insider's Guide to the VoiceXML Forum Users Group Meeting  By Greg Kohn 
                          So what's all this fuss about the VoiceXML Forum's First Annual Users Group Meeting? This article offers an in-depth analysis of the event, with an eye toward how the meeting suits your needs. 
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                          Be sure to visit the Archives to read articles from past issues of VoiceXML Review. 
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