Martine Kempf
While most think of communications as something between humans, Martine Kempf has invented a program that enables humans to speak to machines. Voice-recognition computer programs had been difficult to create due to the wide range of human voices. Martine Kempf, however, solved the problem by devising a program where a user would input her/his own voice into the microprocessors that ran the various machines. Her invention has been widely put to use in wheel chairs where disabled users can guide their wheel chairs using her voice-activated program.
Martine Kempf's voice-activation system is also now used in surgical microscopes, automobiles, and computers.
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References:
Mothers and Daughter of Invention by Autumn Stanley (Rutgers University Press, 1995) pp. 489-490.Patently Female by Ethlie Ann Vare and Greg Ptacek (John Wiley and Sons, 2002), pp.17-18.
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