From U.S. Tech Interactive - October 1999 .
Resistance is futile.
And robust voice recognition required a lot of processing power, which in turn necessitates a large battery. We are still working on these issues. On the software side of FAST, the design team encountered problems with their voice recognition software because of high ambient noise in factories. So they limited the vocabulary needed to give commands to the system and employed noise-canceling microphones. Management personnel are interested and supportive, but it's not a priority to them.