and especially the inability to glean the context of the conversation,
I remember years ago, when speech recognition was in its infancy, an example of a conversation that would be understandable to a human being, but impossible for speech recognition in terms of contextual understanding.
She: Hungry?
He: I've got a McDonalds coupon.
She: The keys are on the table.
I think it will be quite a while before the joining of AI and speech recognition reaches the stage where a computer can understand something like that.
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