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Explore language-independent approaches to speech understanding and generation

Speech Generation. Speech Generation. Common Semantic Frame. Speech Understanding. Speech Understanding. DATABASE. Multilingual Conversational System Research James Glass and Stephanie Seneff Spoken Language Systems Group, LCS.

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Explore language-independent approaches to speech understanding and generation

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  1. Speech Generation Speech Generation Common Semantic Frame Speech Understanding Speech Understanding DATABASE Multilingual Conversational System ResearchJames Glass and Stephanie SeneffSpoken Language Systems Group, LCS • Explore language-independent approaches to speech understanding and generation • Develop necessary human-language technologies to enable porting of conversational interfaces from English to Japanese • Use existing Jupiter weather-information domain as test case

  2. Current Progress • Coordinated with NTT researchers for a visiting scientist with speech and language expertise to stay with SLS group • Dr. Minami arrived in late January, and will stay at least one year • Met with NTT researchers (Tohkura, Aikawa, Minami) in December, 1998 to discuss project plans in more detail • Dr. Minami’s initial efforts have focused on infrastructure • Setting up computer environment on Sun UltraSparc workstation • Making NTT synthesizer operational at MIT LCS • Locating detailed Japanese weather forecasts for focus of Japanese Jupiter domain

  3. Future Plans • Port English Jupiter weather domain to Japanese • Develop Japanese language generation capability using GENESIS system to allow for English input with Japanese output • Develop initial natural language capability using TINA NL system • Begin wizard-based data collection from native speakers • Develop basic speech recognition capability using available telephone-quality corpora • Begin system deployment with automated data collection • Develop multilingual content-processing of weather forecasts • Explore language-independent acoustic-phonetic processing, dialogue control, and speech understanding

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