完形填空One of the newest ways to computers to help make our liv

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One of the newest ways to computers to help make our lives easier is though voice-recognition(语音识别) .It is a kind of 1 that started about 20 years ago, but is only now working well and being used 2 a lot people around the world.
The programmes 3 only remember about 1,000 words, which did not help us much.
Most activities on the 4 need about 10,000 different words at least,. 5 they can understand all the different things you want to do. Now we have lots of programmes that have around 50,000 words. These programmes are used by people 6 writers , doctors and lawyers , for example . They can just talk straight into the computer and their words come up onto the 7 . There is no need to use a keyboard, and they can work 8 faster and get more done.
The way it works in that before you can use it , you need to teach it to 9 the way you speak . People have to read lists of words slowly into the machine . The next time you use it , the programme will remember your voice and the 10 words will come up on the computer screen.
Many other people 11 voice programmes today . When you telephone to order a taxi , or call a big company like a bank or store with lots of different parts in it, you will probably 12 a voice at the other end which will ask you to answer questions and say what you are calling about. You have to speak very 13 . The computer will repeat what you said and check that it has got the right 14 .If it has got it right you say “yes” , and if it is wrong you say “no”. Then you try again. 15 , a computer can help you talk to the right person , or it can simply enter information into its system so that you get what you want.

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