Speech Understanding Research Project (SUR)
A project funded by DARPA in the early 1970s with the goal of producing an automatic speech recognition system with the capacity to understand 90 percent of continuous speech (as opposed to isolated words) about some limited subject matter and making use of a vocabulary of at least one thousand words.
Articles on KurzweilAI.net that refer to Speech Understanding Research Project (SUR)
When Will HAL Understand What We Are Saying? Computer Speech Recognition and Understanding By Ray KurzweilThe Age Intelligent Machines, Chapter Six: Electronic Roots By Ray Kurzweil
How Long Before Superintelligence? By Nick Bostrom
Chapter 13: Information and Education By Neil Gershenfeld