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International Workshop on Hands-Free Speech Communication (HSC2001)April 9-11, 2001 |
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International Workshop on Hands-Free Speech Communication (HSC2001)April 9-11, 2001 |
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SpeechCorder is a project to design, implement, and test
a portable speech recognizer. It will be used to retrieve
information from roughly transcribed speech recorded
during natural meetings. This is an important application
domain, but has inherent difficulties far beyond the
command-and-control functions that &e beginning to be implemented
with speech recognition on portable computers. In addition
to the difficnlt acoustic environment presented by natural
meetings, the limitations of a portable platform must also
be considered.
The proposed system uses IRAM, a new chip being
developed at the University of California, Berkeley. It is
a low-power, vector processor with embedded DRAM. By
coding the speech recognition algorithms to take advantage
of IRAM, high performance with low power consumption
can be achieved.
In this paper, we will describe the proposed
SpeechCorder system, some of the rese&ch issues and design
tradeoffs, and the status of work in progress.
Bibliographic reference. Janin, Adam / Morgan, Nelson (2001): "SpeechCorder, the portable meeting recorder", In HSC2001, 191-194.