Speech recognition technology

Automatic speech-recognition technology may soon be capable of translating ordinary spoken discourse accurately into visually displayed text, at least in quiet environments this may eventually be a major boon for the profoundly hearing impaired. Presently, such systems must be carefully trained on individual speakers and/or must have a limited vocabulary [Ramesh et al, 1992]. Because there is much commercial interest in speech command of computers and vehicle subsystems, this field is advancing rapidly. 

Anson, D. (1999), Speech recognition technology, OT Prac. (January-Febmary) 59-62. 

Aukland, K., 61-1 Autocorrelellogram, 26-7 Automatic speech-recognition technology, 71-5 Autoregulating Windkessel... 

Williams, S.M., Nix, D., Fairweather, P. Using Speech Recognition Technology to Enhance Literacy Instruction for Emerging Readers. In Proc. ICLS 2000, pp. 115-120. Erlbaum, Mahwah (2000)... 

Current cochlear implant technology allows many device recipients to perform very well in tests of speech recognition and to function normally in daily life. However, cochlear implantees have displayed a wide range of scores in tests evaluating speech perception abilities [12,13]. One potential source of variation in speech perception abilities is deviation from the assumptions about how cochlear implants transmit speech information under ideal conditions. In any particular cochlear implant patient, researchers and clinicians cannot be certain about the number of surviving spiral ganglion or how the... 

HMMs themselves are quite general models and, although they were originally developed for speech recognition [36], they have been used for many tasks in speech and language technology, and are now in fact one of the fundamental techniques in biology (to such... 

This paper describes the architecture, rationale and findings for a web-based literacy application called Reading Companion that is used by both adults and children. Feedback from users suggests that using speech recognition over the web to help learners increase reading skills is not only a viable solution, but one that is well accepted by the user populations. With RC we introduce a method that can be used by other interactive applications that wish to use speech technologies on the web. 

A much anticipated aspect of online service delivery involves remote services, such as telemedicine, remote education, or teleconsulting. The future of remote services is critically dependent on the maturity of technologies such as 3D and virtual reality software, video conferencing on broader bandwidth, and speech and handwriting recognition. Advances in these technologies are necessary to replicate an environment where physical contact and interaction are essential for providing person services. 

Automated optical character recognition (OCR) combined with speech synthesis grants access to the most common printed materials (letters, office memorandums,biUs), which are seldom available in Braille or narrated-tape format First popularized in the Kurzweil reading machine, this marriage of technologies is combined with a complex set of lexical, phonetic, and syntactic rules to produce understandable speech from a wide variety of, but not aU, print styles. 

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