Answering machine messages usually contain 3-15 seconds of continuous speech.

Successful recognition of continuous speech, the way people normally talk, still seems a long, long way off.

But in Japanese, where distinctions between phrases are subtle, continuous speech is a requirement.

The paper does not specify how a decision can be made about a word's identity during continuous speech.

But it took another few minutes for the geologist to regain enough breath for continuous speech.

Currently, the best systems can recognize continuous, natural speech, up to 160 words per minute, with an accuracy of 95%.

Speech recognition systems made more than 10 years ago also faced a choice between discrete and continuous speech.

Almost all modern systems are capable of understanding continuous speech.

It was about the longest continuous speech I've ever made, just sort of blurting out and not stopping.

It is an experimental system capable of recognizing continuous speech based on a vocabulary of almost 1,000 words.