Provides the academic community world-wide with a notational standard for the phonetic representation of all languages: the International Phonetic Alphabet.

Technology which automatically transcribes spoken language and displays it as readable text. Developing speech recognition technology as a means to accessible and barrier-free learning.

Main activities of the spoken language processing group cover the following domains: speech recognition, speech understanding, dialog systems, speaker and language recognition, speech translation and audio indexation.

Engages in research and development of speech technologies in a wide range of applications, including speech recognition (Whisper) and speech synthesis (Whistler) and Dr. Who.

Research initiatives for improving the interaction between people and computers via natural spoken language. Publications, news and events, and profiles of researchers.

Boston University resource for experimantal and analyzed data (especially from native signers of ASL) to facilitate linguistic and computational research on signed languages and the gestural components of spoken languages.

The Speech Group at NIST (National Institute of Standards and Technology) primarily engages in developing measurement methods, providing reference materials, coordinating community-wide benchmark tests within the research and development community and...

European research consortium investigating multisensorial interaction. Two year project examining technologies for speech-to-speech translation, the detection and expressions of emotional states, and core speech technologies for children begins Oct 2002.

Conducts research in the areas of speaker recognition (identification and verification), signature verification, speech recognition and handwriting recognition. Recognition engines and applications are currently being developed.

Rich Transcription of speech, speech and speaker recognition, naturallanguage processing