The ESPRIT project polyglot
Louis Boves · 1991
The ESPRIT project POLYGLOT aims at developing multi-lingual Speech-to-Text and Text-to-Speech conversion and to integrate this technology in a number of commercially viable prototype applications. Speech-to-Text conversion is mainly concerned with very large vocabulary isolated word recognition. It uses a statistical knowledge based approach that was pioneered for Italian and is now being extended to other languages. Work on continuous speech recognition has the character of an in-depth feasibility study. For Text-to-Speech conversion a new multi-level data structure is developed that facilitates rule writing by offering a semi-graphical rule format. The recognition and synthesis technology is used to build a number of generic prototype applications that mainly address office automation.