The African Speech Technology project for tele-services: achievements, state of the technology and roadmap

Author

Botha, Elizabeth C.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr., Electron. & Comput. Eng., Pretoria Univ., South Africa

Volume

1

fYear

2002

fDate

2-4 Oct. 2002

Firstpage

367

Abstract

The African Speech Technology project, sponsored by DACST´s Innovation Fund, aims to develop speech and language software tools and libraries to enable the implementation of tele-services (automated information and transaction systems over the telephone). We are adapting state-of-the-art speech technology (recognition and generation) to work in five South African languages. This paper gives an overview of achievements, the state of the technology and the road ahead.

Keywords

information systems; natural languages; software libraries; software tools; speech recognition; African Speech Technology project; DACST Innovation Fund; South African languages; automated information systems; automated transaction systems; language software tools; roadmap; software libraries; speech generation; speech recognition; speech software tools; speech technology; tele-services; Africa; Application software; Humans; Natural languages; Roads; Software libraries; Software tools; Speech recognition; Technological innovation; Telephony;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Africon Conference in Africa, 2002. IEEE AFRICON. 6th

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7570-X

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/AFRCON.2002.1146864

Filename

1146864