Advanced speech applications : European research on speech technology

Advanced Speech Technologies in the ESPRIT Programme.- A Common European Approach to Assessment, Corpora and Standards.- Robust System to Access Large Databases in Natural Language.- SPELL: A Pronunciation Training Device Based on Speech Technology.- A Multilingual Unlimited Vocabulary Stochastic Tagger.- SYMBOL: Multilingual and Multicode Lexical Learning System on CD-I Environment.- Speech Understanding and Dialogue over the Telephone.- Dialogue Development and Implementation in the Danish Dialogue Project.- SUNSTAR.- The EAGLES Working Group on Spoken Language.- Recent Progress in Speech-to-Text Conversion at LIMSI.- Sound-to-Gesture Inversion in Speech: The Speech Maps Approach.- ESPRIT II Project 5516 ROARS: Robust Analytic Speech Recognition System.- POLYGLOT Project: Hybrid System NN/HMM for Continuous Speech Recognition.- Principles and Applications of the VINICS Continuous-Speech Recognition System.- The Philips Research System for Large-Vocabulary and Continuous-Speech Recognition.- DANDELION: Variations of Discourse Functions and Representations According to Context.- A Friendly Interactive Robot for Service Tasks.- Architectural Design of the PLUS Dialogue System.- WERRNIKE: A Neural Network-Based, Speaker-Independent, Large-Vocabulary, Continuous-Speech Recognition System.- Contributors.