Word: spectrograms
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When news of Zue's accomplishment reached speech scientists at Pittsburgh's Carnegie-Mellon University, it was greeted with great excitement. The researchers knew that if a human could read a spectrogram, then a computer could too. In 1979 they invited Zue to spend a couple of days in their Pittsburgh laboratories. "I had no idea what was up," says Zue. The invitation turned out to involve 48 hours of rigorous testing with hundreds of voice spectrograms. At one point, the Carnegie-Mellon team tried to trip up Zue with the phrase "A stitch in dime saves nine," expecting...