It has been said that everything old is new again and that has certainly been true for me. I began my career as a software designer, walked away from while-loops and if-statements about 12 years ago, and recently (and quite unexpectedly), found myself knee deep back in the world of Java programming and webpage design. Despite the fact that today’s technology is significantly different from what it was when I boxed up my programming books, logic is still logic and the methodologies programmers use to solve today’s problems are the same as when I wrote assembler language for Intel 8085 processors.
In this week’s article for No Jitter, I extend my rediscovered love of programming and explore both the art and science of creating successful speech queries.