Speech Technology and Research Laboratory
Speech Technology and Research Laboratory
The Speech Technology and Research (STAR) Laboratory at SRI is a world leader in speech technology, and is active in both technology creation and technology transfer. Nuance Communications is exploiting technology developed in the STAR Laboratory in over the telephone applications. SRI's DECIPHER technology is capable of recognizing natural, continuous speech without requiring the user to train the system in advance (i.e., speaker-independent recognition). The DECIPHER system exhibits strong performance in Government-administered tests and can be distinguished from the few other leading-edge speech recognition technologies by its detailed modeling of variations in pronunciation and its robustness to background noise and channel distortion. These features make the DECIPHER system accurate in recognizing spontaneous speech of different dialects and less dependent on the idiosyncracies of different microphones and acoustic environments. The Speech Technology and Research Laboratory has a staff of about 25, including engineers, computer scientists, and linguists, offering a fine balance of the skills required for leading edge development: signal processing, phonetics/phonology, mathematical modeling, and software engineering.
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