VERBMOBIL-ASL-SUeD: Programm-Architekturen von Systemen zur integrierten Analyse von Sprachlauten und Sprachstrukturen Abschlussbericht

Daimler-Benz worked on the areas of speech recognition, speech synthesis, and lexicon processing within the Verbmobil project. Before the project started, the automatic interpretation of speech was only investigated on very academic examples. The automatic translation of spontaneous speech has widely been seen as too futuristic. The project ASL had the preliminary goal to process speech in the environment of an automatic inquiry-system. After two years - two years earlier than planned - Verbmobil-ASL became Verbmobil. The goal of Verbmobil was the automatic translation of spontaneous speech in a restricted domain (fixing a date for an appointment). The result of the Verbmobil-ASL project consisted in the integration of a successful demonstrator together with Siemens AG. The demonstration at this project state was unplanned. The functionality of the demonstrator was the analysis of the spoken query and the re-synthesis from the logical, internal representation. We introduced the word hypotheses graph as interface between the word recognition unit and the linguistic analysis. Verbmobil had to deal with a much more complex domain and spontaneous speech. We made a very good progress in these areas as well as in the fast unsupervised speaker adaptation. Our system was integrated in the various demonstrators and successfully tested. We also use partial results of Verbmobil for new applications. (orig.)Available from TIB Hannover: F97B1758+a / FIZ - Fachinformationszzentrum Karlsruhe / TIB - Technische InformationsbibliothekSIGLEBundesministerium fuer Bildung, Wissenschaft, Forschung und Technologie, Bonn (Germany)DEGerman