Recognition of Phonemes

RecoPhone

The improved quality of speech recognition will create new ways of working and new types of business, and will provide solutions to major societal challenges such as healthcare, environment, safety, mobility and employment, and have far reaching implications on our everyday life.

The development of language recognition technology and the opening of the market with the support of the European Community by RecoPhone will create new jobs in information and communication technologies in Europe. The development of this new method of communication between human and computer requires the European dimension. The  RecoPhone will be developed with multi-cultural input . The project will lead to new results in many fields even including improved understanding of the function of hearing and new quality of ABIs.

In the RecoPhone-project different applications which will prove the performance of the method will be implemented. The potential market for this new method extends from scientific methods of speech recognition to the development of specific intelligent systems, optimised for human - computer interactions. Examples are: 

(1) Real time recognition of spoken language from commands up to natural spoken language, 

(2) high security systems for integrated speaker and keyword recognition, 

(3) Integration in well known speech recognition systems (IBM, Philips…W3C - VoiceXML), (4) Intelligent speech compression algorithms by phoneme recognition and transmission (as SMS), 

(5) portable keyboard free computer devices, served by natural speech.

Language processing by computers is important for the EU because of  the  large number of different languages. RecoPhone is able to overcome the communication barrier in providing new, robust solutions for speech processing and information retrieval and - exchange between Citizens of Europe.