A small UK company has created a speech recognition system that can fit comfortably on a smartcard and do its job using nothing more than the humble processing power of the chip on the card.. . .
A small UK company has created a speech recognition system that can fit comfortably on a smartcard and do its job using nothing more than the humble processing power of the chip on the card.

By putting the speech recognition on a smartcard, the company hopes to make it safer to use the cards online and off. ...

Now Domain Dynamics has squeezed this recognition system on to a smartcard with only 8 kilobytes of memory. The speech system takes up a tiny 3.6 kilobytes of space, leaving room for other programs.

This cut-down system can recognise a few words or phrases and is intended to be used as an extra security measure for credit cards wherever they are used.

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