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The obstacle that developers of pen recognition software must surmount is in Many ways As Steep As the Challenge facing scientists trying to develop speech recognition systems that can recognize a human talking at a Normal conversational Pace in both cases the software must use various techniques to discern a pattern that May subtly mutate on each occurrence moreover there is frequently Little of what researchers refer to As Quot context Quot to draw on. Context is used extensively by humans to Aid in understanding. Quot if your Secretary walked in and started saying taxi upon n Winter s eve a you d say to Luhv Quot said Esther Dyson publisher of release 1.0, a computer Industry newsletter. 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