Words into action II: A task-oriented system: Harpy is an experimental, continuous-speech recognition system that exploits a low-cost minicomputer

Discusses the Harpy experimental system using a low-cost minicomputer which is capable of automatic speech recognition with up to 98% accuracy when the vocabulary is restricted to 1011 words, and sentence structure limited to that used in the retrieval of abstracts of documents relating to computer technology. The recognition process of the system is described.