Report of the 1985 IEEE ASSPS workshop on speech recognition

The IEEE Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ASSPS) Workshoonp Speech Recognition was held at the Arden House conference center of Columbia University in Harriman, NY, USA on 3-6, December 1985. This is the first time in five years that the ASSPS has sponsored a workshop devoted to speech recognition and it ends a 10 year absence of the society from Arden House. One hundred thirty seven researchers representing twelve countries and nearly as many disciplines gathered to discuss the frontiers of researcohn speech recognition. Each of the meeting´s six sessions comprised a keynote address on a particular topic of interest, four brief presentations on specific aspects of the main theme and spontaneous and unrehearsed discussion by all attendees moderated by the session chairman. Approximately half of each session was allocated to open discussion. There were no parallel sessions so that all attendees could participate in all technical discussions. Taken as a whole, the workshop demonstrated that speech recognition is an active but severely factionated area of research.