Title :
Trends of ASR and TTS applications in Japan
Author :
Kitai, Mikio ; Hakoda, Kazuo ; Sagayama, Shigeki
Author_Institution :
NTT Human Interface Labs., Kanagawa, Japan
fDate :
30 Sep-1 Oct 1996
Abstract :
This paper describes recent trends of ASR and TTS telecommunications applications in Japan. ASR applications focus on public services such as voice-activated information retrieval, operator assistance, and voice dialing. Major TTS applications include information service by voice and e-mail reading. The usage of ASR and TTS functions is expected to dramatically increase in the near future with the penetration of handy and mobile telephone terminals; hot topics are text broadcasting and digital communication
Keywords :
digital communication; electronic mail; speech recognition; speech synthesis; telephony; voice mail; ASR applications; Japan; TTS applications; digital communication; e-mail; information service; mobile telephone terminals; operator assistance; public services; speech recognition; text broadcasting; text to speech; voice dialing; voice mail; voice-activated information retrieval; Application software; Automatic speech recognition; Electronic mail; Hidden Markov models; Humans; Laboratories; Speech synthesis; Telecommunications; Telephony; Vocabulary;
Conference_Titel :
Interactive Voice Technology for Telecommunications Applications, 1996. Proceedings., Third IEEE Workshop on
Conference_Location :
Basking Ridge, NJ
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-3238-5
DOI :
10.1109/IVTTA.1996.552712
