Word: minuses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...speech recognizer, called "Shoebox" because it is smaller than a shoe box, so far recognizes only 16 spoken words, including the ten digits and six arithmetical command words such as plus and minus. But this is no mean feat. Earlier attempts to make machines recognize spoken words have run into trouble because they tried to copy the human ear, which analyzes the complicated mixture of sound frequencies in human speech. IBM Engineer William C. Dersch, inventor of Shoebox, thinks that this is like designing an airplane by copying a bird's feathers. His machine does not depend on sound...
...attract regional ads with a package deal: advertisers can buy space in either the Western or parent edition, or both. But while the paper will compete with Western dailies for advertisements, it does not intend to compete for local news coverage. Western subscribers will get the New York Times minus those stories of purely parochial East Coast interest...
...Decibels" are units of loudness, so if the rating reads "20 to 20,000 cps at full rated output within plus or minus 1 decible with less than 10% total distortion" (a very good rating, by the way) this means that the amplifier can produce every tone that is fed into it with no tone emerging more than 2 decibels (a very small difference audibly) louder than any other...
...five play the guitar, and beyond that they diversify into a variety of instruments that includes five-string banjo, recorder, autoharp, maracas, a ten-string South American charango made from an armadillo shell, and a Nigerian talking drum. Their style is controlled and relaxed, with faultless rhythm, but minus Michael and United Artists, they could be any good college group...
...troops ashore being unduly inconvenienced by Castro's air, it had been his experience as a colonel in the Burma theater that air attack could be more of a nuisance than a danger. One fact he made absolutely clear: military considerations had overruled the political when the D-minus-two strike had been laid on; now political considerations were taking over...