What does ASR stand for?

Audio-visual speech recognition has attracted substantial interest in recent years since it was demonstrated that visual information regarding lip dynamics improves the performance of automatic speech recognition systems.

2 Automatic Speech Recognition System For the objective measurement of the intelligibility of children with speech disorders, an automatic speech recognition system was applied, a word recognition system developed at the Chair for Pattern Recognition (Lehrstuhl fur Mustererkennung) of the University of Erlangen.

The Customer Interaction Portal enables speech-based interaction, supporting automatic speech recognition and speech synthesis (text-to-speech) functionality and is fully integrated with existing contact centre operations.

Most important, says Vysym spokesman Samm Nadel, is the use of automatic speech recognition to simplify the loan process.

That's ASR as in "Market, Investment and Technical News of the Emerging Automatic Speech Recognition Industry"--ASR News' subtitle.

The package, which will be sold by both companies, incorporates Lucent's text-to-speech and automatic speech recognition (ASR) engines and Unisys' Natural Language Speech Assistant (NLSA) toolkit - a suite of development tools and runtime components that was introduced last year.

AppTek's product offerings include machine translation (MT) and automatic speech recognition (ASR) for a growing list of more than 23 languages; multilingual information retrieval with query and topic search capabilities; name-finding applications; and integrated suites providing automatic speech recognition and machine translation in media monitoring of broadcast and telephony speech as well as handheld and wearable speech-to-speech translation devices.

This new version of the Automatic Speech Recognition engine assists in enabling a more powerful use of speech recognition for voice application development.