Continuous speech recognition

Abstract

This group works towards automatic transcription of continuous speech with a vocabulary and syntax as unrestricted as possible. It is a long-term effort; however, an experimental system is operational. The acoustic processor contains a spectrum analyzer based on the Fast Fourier Transform and a phone segmenter/recognizer which makes use of transitional and steady-state information in its classification. The linguistic processor accepts an imperfect string of phones and produces an estimated transcription of the speech input.