Speech Technology for Information Access: a South African Case Study

作者: Marelie H. Davel , Etienne Barnard , Gerhard B. Van Huyssteen

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摘要: Telephone-based information access has the potential to deliver a significant positive impact in developing world. We discuss some of most important issues that must be addressed order realize this potential, including matters related resource development, automatic speech recognition, text-to-speech systems, and user-interface design. Although our main focus been on eleven official languages South Africa, we believe many these same will relevant for application technology throughout

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