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Statement on National Information Infrastucture Issues
Pages 228-232

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... These techniques can be robust enough to tolerate acoustic noise, disfluencies, and so on. Relevant topics here include speech recognition and synthesis; natural language processing and understanding; lip-reading technologies in noisy environments;2 and search, navigation,3 and retrieval from cyberspace using multimedia.4 Speaker identification techniques can be combined with secure passwords for use in control of computer access, and language identification may support improved multilingual interfaces.5 Understanding of natural language and speech also concerns semantics and prosody (for speech, obviously and probably the use of semantic nets and semantic encyclopedias now under construction.
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... Video and audio technologies wail require large compression factors and mechanisms for rapid encoding and decoding and are difficult to index and access for retrieval, and even then, mass storage database techniques wail be required. This area is also indirectly related to the speech and video synthesis technologies, since high-resolution synthesis approaches imply efficient encoding, possibly at different resolution levels.
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... It has been found that 50 to 90 percent of all lines of code in industrial and military software are dedicated to hurnan~omputer interfaces. In this sense, we include usability studies in the scope of software engineering measurements for interfaces.~9 A special interest is anticipated in experimentation with the facilitation Of interactive multimedia educational software development, particularly related to science and engineering topics.
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From page 231...
... 1994. "Continuous Optical Automatic Speech Recognition by Lipreading," Proceedings of the Twenty-Eighth Annual Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems, and Computers, October 31-November 2, Pacific Grove, Calif.
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... 1993. "Surround-Screen Projection-Based Virtual Reality: The Design and Implementation of CAVE," Computer Graphics Proceedings, Annual Conference Series, pp.
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