The science of speech recognition has come a long way since 1962. The technology has developed, speech recognition has become progressively implanted in our everyday lives with voice-driven apps like Amazon’s Alexa, Apple’s Siri, Microsoft’s Cortana, or the many voice-responsive features of Google. From our phones, computers, watches, and even our refrigerators, each new voice-interactive device that we bring into our daily lives extends our need for artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning.