The Erlangen system for understanding continuous German speech

The system developed at the University of Erlangen for continuous speech understanding consists of a set of specialized independent modules operating on a common data base under the supervision of a control module. Speech quality is limited to telephone band width, the size of the vocabulary presently is about 1300 words, and syntactic, semantic, and pragmatic constraints are used. The paper describes the present status of the system, in particular the modules which are operational now; and it mentions the modules which are still in the development stage.