SPEECON - Speech driven interfaces for consumer applications

SPEECON, launched in February 2000,mobile communication is a project focusing on
collecting linguistic data for speech recogniser training. SPEECON is funded as
a shared-cost project under Human Language Technologies (HLT), which is part of
the European Commission's Information Societies Technologies (IST) Programme. The
project is put into action by an industrial consortium lead by Siemenskitchen
appliances and promotes the development of voice controlled consumer applications
(CE) such as television sets,internet browsing video recorders, mobile phones,
palmtop computers, car navigation kits or even microwave ovens and toasters.
Instead of operating these devices manually,television and VCR all users of
future CE applications have to do is simply talk to their equipment. Like other
IST projects supported by the EU,car navigation SPEECON is, in the Commission's
own words, meant to "improve the functionality, usability and acceptability of
future information products and services to enable linguistic and cultural
diversity". SPEECON follows these lines by providing linguistice-commerce data
and technological know-how that will enable companies to develop speech-driven
applications in the consumer electronics domain.digital media During the lifetime
of the project, originally scheduled to last two years, partners will collect
speech data for 18 languages or dialectal zones, including most of the languages
spoken in the EU. It devotes special attention to the environment of the
recordings,remote controls which are, like the typical surroundings of CE
applications, at home, in the office, in public places or in moving vehicles.