State-of-the-art speech recognition technology lets learners compare their pronunciation with a native speaker's pronunciation.
After my junior year I lived in Montreal, working on speech recognition technology during an internship at Nortel Networks.
Nuance, based in Burlington, Mass., provides much of the speech recognition technology behind Apple's Siri and dictation functions.
Using speech recognition technology and artificial intelligence, Barbie responds to the child by selecting among over 8,000 dialog scripts.
Most voice portals use speech recognition technology and a computer language that digitizes the spoken word and searches Internet servers based on the commands.
"Children who wrote using speech recognition technology for as little as 10 1/2 hours showed significant improvement in reading, decoding, spelling and comprehension," Dr. Raskind said.
Talk Is Cheap As the price of speech recognition technology has dropped, more and more household appliances have been redesigned to respond to simple voice commands.
(The next hurdle, which stands far higher, is speech recognition technology that enables computers to understand the meanings behind human utterances).
The scientists at Johns Hopkins will focus on speech recognition technology for foreign languages, first Czech and then Russian, Hungarian, Polish and Slovak, Dr. Byrne said.
Among the assets for sale is speech recognition technology developed by Dragon Systems, a company Lernout acquired in 2000 for more than $500 million in stock.
That may soon change, with the aid of a $7.5 million grant to the center from the National Science Foundation to develop speech recognition technology to speed the cataloging and indexing.
