The Voice-Activated Multilingual Interview System.

Abstract

The Multilingual Interview System is a Windows-based application program designed to let users conduct simple interviews by voice in languages they do not speak. Any statement or question that is within the vocabulary, when spoken into a microphone attached to the computer, is recognized by a large-vocabulary speech recognition system and converted into a sequence of pre-recorded wave files which are they played back through a loudspeaker attached to the computer. The development of the operational applications for this system was done by NOMI in Pensacola, Florida. Dragon Systems, Inc. developed and customized the underlying speech recognition technology and produced the application software that connects the spoken input to the spoken output as well as the software to record foreign-language wave files for playback. The system was tested at Ft. Bragg and deployed in Bosnia on laptop, handheld and wearable computers.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Aug 01, 1997
Accession Number
ADA332003

Entities

People

  • Carol Kunz
  • Paul G. Bamberg

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical
  • C4I
  • Counter IED

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Application Software
  • Automated Speech Recognition
  • Basic Programming Language
  • Computer Programming
  • Computers
  • Grammars
  • Hidden Markov Models
  • Language
  • Laptop Computers
  • Markov Models
  • Mobile Devices
  • Operating Systems
  • Standards
  • United States
  • User Interface
  • Wearable Computers

Fields of Study

  • Computer science

Readers

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  • Software Engineering.
  • Speech Processing/Speech Recognition.

Technology Areas

  • AI & ML
  • AI & ML - Machine Translation