Although online text and video resources have vastly increased our ability to communicate with each other via computer technology, speech is still the means of communication used first and foremost by humans for information exchange. The symposium will begin with a presentation that provides a general overview of the field. Pairs of experts will then survey recent progress in each of the three technologies, compare the technology with human performance, discuss applications, show demonstrations, and make some predictions for the future. Both industrial and academic aspects of the technologies will be considered. A copy of the presentation materials can be found here .
Human languages are very different from machine languages.
A copy of the presentation materials can be found here . We envision the merging of these two areas as we make progress on the accuracy and robustness of the technology and in extracting meaning. In the merger of speech recognition ubiquitously used as both information access and source, our technology itself could become an active partner in collaborative problem solving. To help bolster this vision of the future, we will survey the history of speech recognition from a technical and cultural perspective, describe the current state of the art, and outline challenges and trends for the future. A copy of the presentation materials can be found here .