| UIT Seminar: Challenges in Speech Recognition | |
| August 8, 2003 10:30 AM - 11:30 AM | |
| Lawrence Rabiner , Associate Director CAIP, Rutgers | |
| University, Professor Univ. of Santa Barbara | |
| Yorktown 20-043 | |
| Availability: Open | |
| Speech recognition has matured to the point where it | |
| is now being widely applied in a range of applications | |
| including desktop dictation, cell phone name dialing, | |
| agent technology, automated operator services, | |
| telematics, call center automation and help desks. | |
| Although the technology is often good enough for many | |
| of these applications, there remain key challenges in | |
| virtually every aspect of speech recognition that | |
| prevent the technology from being used ubiquitously in | |
| any environment, for any speaker, and for an even | |
| broader range of applications. This talk will analyze | |
| the ‘Speech Circle’ that enables a person to maintain | |
| a dialog with a machine using speech recognition, | |
| spoken language understanding, dialog management and | |
| spoken language generation, and finally text-to-speech | |
| synthesis, and show where significant progress has | |
| been made, and where there remain critical problems | |
| that need to be addressed and solved. | |
| The talk will include several audio and video examples | |
| of speech recognition and speech understanding systems | |
| that have been studied in the laboratory to illustrate | |
| the challenges that remain to be solved before speech | |
| recognition is considered a solved problem. | |