Complex sentence: However, by the 1980s a number of new competitors entered the market and uptake of IVR technology started to increase, as speech recognition software developed the technology changed from DSP to a client/server architecture.
Split into simpler sentences: However, by the 1980s a number of new competitors entered the market and uptake of IVR technology started to increase. As speech recognition software developed the technology changed from DSP to a client/server architecture.