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Guest Post: How I Go About Making My Wartime Detective Series Historically Accurate

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By Mark Ellis Editor's note: Mark shares great tips on how he works on his detective series. Some key takeaways that apply to every writer when doing research include: The internet is a great starting point and useful for specific details, like the weather on a particular day To dig deeper, history books, biographies, and diaries are helpful, as are novels … [Read more...] about Guest Post: How I Go About Making My Wartime Detective Series Historically Accurate

Guest Post: A Brief History of ASR, Automatic Speech Recognition

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By Jason Kincaid This moment has been a long time coming. The technology behind speech recognition has been in development for over half a century, going through several periods of intense promise — and disappointment. So what changed to make ASR viable in commercial applications? And what exactly could these systems accomplish, long before any of us had heard of … [Read more...] about Guest Post: A Brief History of ASR, Automatic Speech Recognition

A Roundup of History Lessons: Book Blurbs, Fairy Tales, Ebooks, and More

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It's always fun to think about how things came to be. A couple weeks ago, I shared a bunch of links that looks at the present and predicts future trends. I think that understanding the past also helps us to better understand the present and look towards the future. With that in mind, there have been some interesting stories going around the interwebs lately that talk about … [Read more...] about A Roundup of History Lessons: Book Blurbs, Fairy Tales, Ebooks, and More