On the Use of Syntax and Semantics in a Speech Understanding System.

Abstract

The document represents an attempt to produce a system, called the HEARSAY system, capable of accepting speech input, understanding spoken messages, and generating voice responses. This system has as subparts a speech recognition system, a question-answering system, and a speech generation system. A task is a system capable of answering questions, obeying commands, and/or accepting facts for future use. In a speech understanding system, a task has a corresponding task language, which is a formal language with an associated semantic interpretation. Two tasks are implemented in the HEARSAY system. The first, voice-chess, accepts spoken chess moves and speaks response moves. The second, voice-programming, accepts simple spoken algebraic expressions and speaks their values. Some preliminary results obtained on the HEARSAY system are presented. (Modified author abstract)

Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
May 01, 1973
Accession Number
AD0766294

Entities

People

  • Richard Bruce Neely

Organizations

  • Carnegie Mellon University

Tags

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Abstracts
  • Automated Speech Recognition
  • Computer Languages
  • Computer Programming
  • Computing-Related Activities
  • Demographic Cohorts
  • Formal Languages
  • Language
  • Linguistics
  • Recognition
  • Semantics

Fields of Study

  • Computer science

Readers

  • Computational Linguistics
  • Team-Based Human-Centered Cognitive Task Decision Making and Information Performance.

Technology Areas

  • AI & ML
  • AI & ML - Information Retrieval
  • AI & ML - Machine Translation