Discussion: Speech recognition systems introduce great capabilities including text-to-speech, speech-to-text, and voice recognition. How could speech recognition systems be used in innovative and useful ways? Do you think speech recognition systems eventually will replace humans in common phone interactions? Is this good or bad? Response: Speech recognition continues to be very useful and innovative in our evolving world of technology. Speech recognition can improve our communication. It also provides many business improvements through allowing automations to resolve multiple issues. Speech recognition vastly improves in-call customer service. It provides aid in playing back simple information. In many circumstances customers do not actually need or want to speak to a live operator....