A lexical prediction system

A lexical prediction system is being developed at the Department of Speech Communication and Music Acoustics to be used with our speech synthesizer [6]. It was first developed in response to the observation that some motorically handicapped nonvocal users of the synthesizer find communication with such an aid laboriously slow. One user of our speech synthesizer commented that the other children were guessing the words she was typing before she finished, but that she had to finish typing them anyway for the speech to be correct. The lexical prediction system addresses this problem. Our future plans also includes another application, an adaption to our phonetic speech recognizer. There the input lexicons would contain phonetic-orthographic correspondence for words.