Recognizing Continuous Speech Remains an Elusive Goal
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Continous speech recognition (CSR) requires sophisticated computer programs. Improved understanding in articulatory and acoustic phonetics has aided CSR development. Algorithms for isolated-word-recognition (IWR) have a wide performance range and cost. The matching of word templates in this system is speaker- dependent, and the system must be trained for each user. CSR research is even more limited than IWR research. While a limited CSR system was developed in the 1970s, only IBM is working on CSR in the form of a speech-recognition typewriter. The Japanese hope to build a speech-activated typewriter within ten years. Problems that must be solved include the difficulty of large vocabularies, speaker independence, graceful error recovery, and minimizing cost and maximizing speed. A block diagram of the IBM system and a table illustrating speech-recognition milestones is given.
Publication Name: IEEE Spectrum
Subject: Engineering and manufacturing industries
ISSN: 0018-9235
Year: 1983
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Computer Vision: The Challenge of Imperfect Inputs
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Computer vision is difficult because sensing device information is limited, factors are compounded in an image, and vision requires a large amount of memory and many computations. Most vision systems operate on three levels of processing: low-level feature extraction, intermediate level three-dimensional object deduction, and high- level scene description. The first step is to perceive the three- dimensional world from a two-dimensional projection. Progress is limited in object recognition. Model-based vision matches incoming images to simplified models of objects. This method is getting the most research, but is still far from perfect. Photographs illustrate shape determination and a graph illustrates computer vision advances along the three levels.
Publication Name: IEEE Spectrum
Subject: Engineering and manufacturing industries
ISSN: 0018-9235
Year: 1983
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Recognizing Confusable Words
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The new Word Recognizer speech-recognition algorithm improves performance in discriminating between the nine letters with the 'e' sound to seventy-five percent. Words or letters are spoken into the computer, which digitizes the sound and converts it into a frequency spectrum. A first pass determines which class the letter or word falls into, and the second pass orders the letters in the class based on spectral features of a template in memory.
Publication Name: IEEE Spectrum
Subject: Engineering and manufacturing industries
ISSN: 0018-9235
Year: 1984
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