Uunexplored directions in spoken language technology for development

2008 IEEE Workshop on Spoken Language Technology, SLT 2008 - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 1-4

  Weber, Frederick ^a   Bali, Kalika ^b   Rosenfelct, Roni ^c   Toyama, Kentaro ^b  

^a Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

^b MICROSOFT RESEARCH   (United States)

^c CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Dialog systems; ICT for development; Speech recognition; Speech synthesis

Indexed keywords

CELL PHONE; DEVELOPING WORLD; DIALOG SYSTEMS; ICT FOR DEVELOPMENT; LANGUAGE TECHNOLOGY; SPOKEN LANGUAGES; TECHNOLOGY PROJECTS; VOICE INTERFACES;

CELLULAR TELEPHONE SYSTEMS; LINGUISTICS; SPEECH ANALYSIS; SPEECH SYNTHESIS; TECHNOLOGY; TELECOMMUNICATION EQUIPMENT;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 67649565473     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/SLT.2008.4777825     Document Type: Conference Paper

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