Voice recognition software helps decode data from Yellowstone geyser basin

Dawson, a geophysicist with the U.S. Geological Survey in California, said he happened by chance upon the discovery that voice recognition could be applied to seismic data. A visiting researcher from Spain who specialized in voice recognition needed a desk and the USGS just happened to have a spare that she could use. Dawson and Carmen Benítez got to talking one day and decided to apply her skills to decoding data collected from the Norris Geyser Basin.