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Towards Fully Automatic Speech Processing Techniques for Interactive Voice Servers

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Automatic Speech Processing (Speech Recognition, Coding, Synthesis, Language Identification, Speaker Verification, Interpreting Telephony, etc.) has progressed to a level which allows its integration in the context of Interactive Voice Servers (IVS). The description of a personal telephone attendant (’Majordome’) focuses on some of the issues in the development of IVS. In particular, users should be allowed to dialogue with automatic systems over the telephone in their native language. To achieve this goal, we propose an approach called ALISP (Automatic Language Independent Speech Processing). The needs for ALISP are justified and some of the corresponding tools are described. Applications to very low bit-rate coders, automatic speech recognition and speaker verification illustrate our proposal.

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  1. ENST — CNRS URA 820, 46 rue Barrault, 75634, Paris Cedex 13, France

    Gérard Chollet, Guillaume Gravier & François Yvon

  2. Institute of Radioelectronics, Technical University Brno, Czech Republic

    Jan Černocký

  3. Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Circuits and Systems Group, 1015, Lausanne, Switzerland

    Jean Hennebert & Dijana Petrovska-Delacrétaz

  4. Ubilab, UBS IT Innovation Laboratory, Bahnhofstrasse 45, CH-8098, Zurich, Switzerland

    Jean Hennebert

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    Gerard Chollet PhD

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Chollet, G., Černocký, J., Gravier, G., Hennebert, J., Petrovska-Delacrétaz, D., Yvon, F. (1999). Towards Fully Automatic Speech Processing Techniques for Interactive Voice Servers. In: Chollet, G., Di Benedetto, M.G., Esposito, A., Marinaro, M. (eds) Speech Processing, Recognition and Artificial Neural Networks. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-0845-0_17

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