Cartoon history of speech recognition research

1960’s, 1970’s, 1980’s: lots of different approaches; “hey, let’s try this”.
1980’s Hidden Markov Models (HMM), statistical approach took off.
1990’s and beyond: HMM’s now the dominant approach. “The person with the best training set wins”.

1960’s, 1970’s, 1980’s: lots of different approaches; “hey, let’s try this”.