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• Jelinke, Frederick. "Statistical Methods for Speech Recognition." The MIT Press, January 16, 1998. ISBN 0262100665.
• Kurzweil, Raymond. "When will HAL understand what we are saying?" in "HAL's Legacy: 2001's Computer as Dream and Reality." edited by David G. Stork, The MIT Press, February 6, 1998, ISBN 0262692112.
• "More About Bell." PBS.org.
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