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Commercial Applications of Speech Interface Technology: An Industry at the Threshold
Commercial Applications of Speech Interface Technology: An Industry at the Threshold
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Largevocabulary speech interface systems for document creation and read-aloud proofing are expanding beyond niche markets. Today's applications represent a small preview of a rich future for speech interface technology that will eventually replace keyboards with microphones and loudspeakers to give easy accessibility to increasingly intelligent machines.
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Today's applications in speech interface technology utilize speech recognition or synthesis to simply translate spoken words into commands and text or vice versa with little regard to underlying meaning. In the future as applications for human-machine communication by voice grow, the need for natural-language-processing technology to permit speech interpretation will increase.
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In addition, large companies such as IBM, AT&T, and Texas Instruments have provided major research and development funding for advanced speech technologies. Beginning in about 1990 the combination of powerful inexpensive microprocessors and improved algorithms for decoding speech patterns made possible voice command systems for personal computers and telephone-based systems.
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The initial paucity of software applications, which could take full advantage of this speech capability, limits the popularity of these systems. This is not unlike the early days of the computer mouse TABLE 1 Segments Automatic Speech Recognition Market Segments Applications Computer Control Consumer Data Entry Speech-to-Text Telephone Voice Verification Disabled, CAD Appliances, toys QA inspection, sorting Text generation Operator services, IVR Physical entry, network access
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In the telephone market there are a growing number of important applications, including operator services and interactive voice response, that use automatic speech recognition. Other applications in information services use both synthetic speech and automatic speech capability for database access.
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These numbers represent sales of commercial products but do not include research and development dollars invested in advanced speech technologies each year by small and large companies or government programs. RECENT SIGNIFICANT COMMERCIAL DEVELOPMENTS Developments in several segments of the automatic speech recognition market reflect trends in speech interface product growth.
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In the telecommunications segment, speech interface technologies are automating many long-distance toll calls. The driving force for automation and the use of automatic speech recognition in tele
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Advanced information services have been demonstrated by several companies. One of these services provides automated stock quotations using speaker-independent speech recognition for inquiry input and synthetic speech for output information.
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Intel's Pentium chip will provide high-end, largevocabulary, automatic speech recognition systems with sufficient power to provide real-time, continuous speech, speaker-independent systems for text generation. As more speech recognition in text-to-speech systems become widely available for personal computers, more applications software will be written to take particular advantage of these input/output modalities.
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An application that exemplifies speech interface technologies and that may find significant application in the future is the voice-controlled automated attendant. One advanced speech recognition developer is currently demonstrating such a system in its offices, which have approximately 2000 employees.
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