Dr. John Karat, a research staff member at I.B.M. in Hawthorne, N.Y., who has published studies on problems related to speech interfaces, said: "We no longer expect speech recognition to replace a keyboard and screen in an office setting.
There are other white elephant stories such as IBM's investment in speech recognition to replace word processing, the Japanese government spending on "Fifth Generation Computing" and almost all research into machine translation and learning from the 1960s to the present.
UMVAD adopts an adaptive threshold instead of the fixed threshold of VAD, utilizes the entropy to calculate an adaptive a priori speech presence probability to replace the fixed value of the unbiased MMSE, and adopts different strategies to estimate noise according to whether speech is absent or not.
The field was originally called "Augmentative Communication"; the term served to indicate that such communication systems were to supplement natural speech rather than to replace it.
The Independent Labour Party had joined in, and political speeches were beginning to replace the religious sermons.
Andersen, reflecting last week on the success of that conference, said of White's speech, "There is nothing to replace a firsthand eyewitness account" of doping.
President Bush's June 24 , 2002 speech calling on Palestinians to replace Yasir Arafat, however, was broadcast live in its entirety, translated instantly into Arabic.
The writing of President Bush's speech asking the Palestinians to replace their leadership went through two dozen drafts before Mr. Bush expressed some irritation, saying he was being "nuanced to death," as one adviser put it.
Practice imitating the speech style you seek to replace your southern accent.
My first job had me miscast as a bubbly shopgirl; I was pathologically shy, and thus tended to replace human speech with excessive head gestures.
