Language modeling for other applications. Speech recognition is not the only use for language models. Like speech recognition, all of these are areas where the input is ambiguous in some way, and a language model can help us guess the most likely input. We're also working on finding new uses for language models, in other areas. Compressing language models.
Language models can be one of the largest parts of a speech recognizer, taking many megabytes.
Building smaller language models will help put speech recognizers on more computers, especially the smallest computers, like laptops and hand-helds, where they are the most useful.