Spoken-Language Research at Carnegie Mellon

The goal of speech research at Carnegie Mellon continues to be the development of spoken language systems that effectively intelFate speech processing into the human-computer interface in a way that facilitates the use of computers in the performance of practical tasks. Research in spoken language is currently focussed in the following areas: • Improved speech recognit ion technologies: Extending the useful vocabulary of SPHINX-II by use of better phonetic and linguistic models and better search techniques, providing for rapid configuration for new tasks. • Fluent human/machine interfaces: Developing tools that allow users to easily communicate with computers by voice and understanding the role of voice in the computer interface.