European Conference on Speech Technology Edinburgh, Scotland, UK September 1987

A Full Speed Speech Simulation of Speech Recognition Machines

Alan F. Newell, John L. Arnott, R. Dye

Microcomputer Centre, University of Dundee, Dundee, Scotland

A speech driven word-processor has been devised which is based on Palantype machine shorthand transcription. Although the system uses a trained human operator, it does provide a very high performance simulation of a speech recognition system. This particular simulation does not suffer from any unrealistic restrictions on speed of dictation, such as occur with typewriter-keyboard based simulations. The simulation has been set in the context of a 'speech-driven' office, This simulation, and the associated experiments, are being used to produce a realistic assessment of users' response to such a system, and measures of performance criteria required. It is also enabling the development of appropriate dialogue design strategies for speech operation of word processors.

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Bibliographic reference.  Newell, Alan F. / Arnott, John L. / Dye, R. (1987): "A full speed speech simulation of speech recognition machines", In ECST-1987, 2410-2413.