ARPA, the sponsors of that research, made periodic "site visits" to review our progress. On these occasions, the graduate students prepared what we thought were bug-free demonstrations. We all wanted the system to work absolutely perfectly during these reviews. The very nature of our earnestness produced enough stress to cause the system to crash and burn in front of the ARPA brass.
Like a self-fulfilling prophecy, the system almost never worked for important demos; our graduates were just too nervous and their voices reflected their condition. A few years later, one student had an idea: Find the pauses in the user's speech and program the machine to generate the utterance, "ah ha," at judicious times.
Thus, as one spoke to the machine, it would periodically say: ah hha, ahhh ha, or ah ha. This had such a comforting effect it seemed that the machine was encouraging the user to converse , that the user relaxed a bit more and the performance of the system skyrocketed. Our idea was criticized as sophisticated charlatanry. It was not a gimmick at all, but an enlightened fix. It revealed two important points: For one, not all utterances need have lexical meaning to be valuable in communications; for another, some utterances are purely protocols, like network handshaking.
Think of yourself on the telephone. If you do not say "ah ha" to the caller at appropriate intervals, the person will become nervous and, ultimately, inquire: "Are you there?
The reason for revisiting this long story is that some of the most sophisticated people within the speech recognition community failed to understand what I have just illustrated. In fact, in many labs today, speech recognition and production are still studied in different departments or labs! I frequently ask, "why? That is to say, people in speech recognition wish to make something like a "listening" typewriter which can take dictation and produce a document.
Good luck! The couple commemorated their dating milestone with a getaway to a Cambodia, where the groom got down on one knee on a picturesque wooden bridge amid rice patties.
But first, he cleverly staged the moment as a photo op. Tara had given him a heads-up that she wanted to take more pictures of him on the trip, so he promptly broke into a series of silly poses. For the last shot, he got down on one knee, played their favorite song from his phone, and pulled out a ring.
After a screamed yes, they spent about two hours crying of happiness together. The same year, the couple founded eternity rose company Venus et Fleur. They wandered the exhibits, pausing to watch the seals and sea lions show before Adam insisted they head to the coral reef exhibit for a dive. The diver gave her presentation, then noticed that a piece of trash had made its way into the tank. Claire, will you marry me? Australia-based pair Caroline and Courtney Smyth-Lace have their careers to thank for their fated union.
Both registered nurses, Caroline transferred to the same cardiology ward as her future wife in , when the pair met and began dating two years later.
Courtney, in turn, popped the question in after Caroline had returned from Ireland for her grandmother's funeral. The two set up a picnic of champagne and cheese on the beach in Sydney, and Courtney pulled out a letter that she claimed had arrived during Caroline's trip.
In reality, the envelope actually contained the proposal itself, made with a series of flash cards. The recipient accidentally opened the carefully thought-out bundle backward, reading the final proposal card first, but looked up to see her love holding a ring box. Before Julia Gilliam and Daniel Sterling tied the knot in June , Julia's mother sadly passed away from ovarian cancer in late Little did she know, Danny had also asked for her mother's blessing in marrying her daughter before she passed.
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These choices will be signaled globally to our partners and will not affect browsing data. The story of our love is only beginning. Let's write our own happy ending. There are many ways to be happy in this life, but all I really need is you. When I look into your eyes, I can see a reflection of the two of us and the life I hope we'll share together.
I know my life will never be complete without you beside me to share it. When I look into my heart, I see only you. If you can look into your heart and only see me, then we should spend the rest of our lives together. I promise you, no one will work harder to make you happy or cherish you more than me.
When I think about you, I know that no one else will ever hold my heart the way you do. When I think of the future, I like to picture us as two trees planted side-by-side, our roots growing together more firmly as the years go by, and our children sprouting like seedlings around us.
Life offers many challenges. I know I can meet them if you're willing to face them with me. When I met you, I knew I'd met my match. It was only a matter of time until we arrived at this moment. How it turns out is all in your hands. You deserve the very best, someone who will back you up without limits, let you grow without borders, and love you without end. Will you let me be the one? Short Marriage Proposal Wording Your short proposal speech can include a short, final line that delivers the big question.
Let's dance together at our wedding. Let's put our hearts into each other's hands for life. I do, do you? Pick me? Wear the ring for "yes," close the box for "no. Me and you, together forever? Me plus you equal married? I'd give up anything to hear a "yes" from you now. Our past was memorable, can our future be infinite? Funny Marriage Proposal Speeches If you both have humorous personalities or prefer humor over seriousness, funny engagement poems and speeches are perfect for a marriage proposal.
They say money can't buy love, but I paid for this ring with money, and you're going to accept it under the condition that you have to stay with me forever, so it's kind of like buying love if you say "yes. Then, I realized girlfriends are too, so what the heck - will you marry me? If I knew all it took to keep a girl forever was a ring and a question, I'd of been married a long time ago!
I got down on one knee for you, and whether you say "yes" or "no," I'm going to need your help getting back up. I was hoping one of these days you'd get all modern woman and propose to me, but since you haven't, I thought I better ask before you get the chance to decide you'd rather propose to someone else. I don't really know what I'm supposed to do if you say "no," so could you save us both the trouble and say "yes? Will you settle with me?
It's funny how you need an expensive ring to get someone to agree to marry you, then only a piece of paper to make that union legal.
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