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The RSVP voice-recognition search engine improves speech recognition and translation accuracy in question answering.

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Communications of the ACM  Volume 56, Issue 7
July 2013
99 pages
ISSN:0001-0782
EISSN:1557-7317
DOI:10.1145/2483852
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