Northeast Artificial Intelligence Consortium Annual Report 1986: Artificial Intelligence Applications to Speech Recognition. Volume 7

Abstract : The Northeast Artificial Intelligence Consortium's purpose is to conduct pertinent research in artificial intelligence and to perform activities ancillary to this research. The topics covered in general are: versatile expert system for equipment maintenance, distributed AI for communications system control, automatic photo interpretation, time-oriented problem solving, speech understanding systems, knowledge base maintenance, hardware architectures for very large systems, knowledge-based reasoning and planning, and a knowledge acquisition, assistance, and explanation system. The specific topic for this volume is the design and implementation of a knowledge-based system to read speech spectrograms. Keywords: Artificial intelligence, Speech recognition, Expert systems, Signal processing, Phoneme classification, Knowledge based systems.