Session 1: Spoken Language Systems

Without the ability to interpret natural language, speech recognition is suited only for a subset of tasks (though certainly not trivial ones), such as data entry, simple commands or dictation. Similarly, without speech recognition natural language is restricted to the interpretation of written language, a stylized form of human communication. Spoken language systems thus represent an attempt to automate speech communication. While limited in terms of the target behavior, they still represents an advance over the capabilities of the individual technologies.