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13182_3838_early_voice_analysis4
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1964
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Illustrates the Bell System's efforts to improve long distance transmission, using as an example Bell Laboratories' studies in speech and hearing. Footage of an engineer making sounds into a microphone, as the question is asked if a machine can be created that may be able to recognize speech. Shots of experiments being conducted on a bat, to see how they hear.