Title :
Towards a speech recognition based automatic telephone exchange with an Afrikaans conversational interface
Author :
Van Leeuwen, Gfvb ; Nieuwoudt, C. ; Botha, EC
Author_Institution :
Electr., Electron. & Comput. Eng., Pretoria Univ., South Africa
Abstract :
This paper describes the development and implementation issues for a real-time speaker independent speech recognition system with limited quality speech. The platform is a computer with a telephone interface card. Meaningful constrained grammar phrases contained within extraneous speech are recognised online, with an Afrikaans conversational interface prompting the caller for correct answers
Keywords :
automatic telephone systems; computer telephony integration; grammars; natural language interfaces; peripheral interfaces; speech recognition; telephone exchanges; Afrikaans conversational interface; automatic telephone exchange; computer based telephone exchange; grammar phrases; real-time speaker independent speech recognition; speech quality; telephone interface card; Acoustic noise; Africa; Automatic speech recognition; Computer interfaces; Databases; Hidden Markov models; Noise robustness; Operating systems; Speech recognition; Telephony;
Conference_Titel :
Africon, 1999 IEEE
Conference_Location :
Cape Town
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-5546-6
DOI :
10.1109/AFRCON.1999.820793
