  The decade from 2010 to 2020 saw remarkable improvements in automatic speech
recognition. Many people now use speech recognition on a daily basis, for
example to perform voice search queries, send text messages, and interact with
voice assistants like Amazon Alexa and Siri by Apple. Before 2010 most people
rarely used speech recognition. Given the remarkable changes in the state of
speech recognition over the previous decade, what can we expect over the coming
decade? I attempt to forecast the state of speech recognition research and
applications by the year 2030. While the changes to general speech recognition
accuracy will not be as dramatic as in the previous decade, I suggest we have
an exciting decade of progress in speech technology ahead of us.
