By STEPHEN J. COX
The ACORNS project is attempting to advance the state of the art in ASR by modelling the process speech and language acquisition itself, drawing on knowledge of human speech recognition and cognition.
Researchers Tackle
Mobile NLP
By BARBARA ROSARIO & TIM PAEK
In anticipation of new
and exciting applications for natural and spoken
language processing on mobile devices, the ACL 2008
Workshop on Mobile Language Processing provided a
forum for discussing some of the challenges that are
unique to this domain.
NIST Conducts 2008
Speaker Recognition Evaluation
By
ALVIN MARTIN
The 2008 NIST Speaker
Recognition Evaluation (SRE08) evaluated research
systems for text independent automatic speaker
detection in the context of conversational speech.
This year's evaluation emphasized the cross-channel
performance of submitted systems.
