7. A Timeline & History of Voice Recognition Software Dragon released discrete word dictation-level speech recognition software. It was the first time dictation speech & voice recognition technology was available to consumers . 1995 SpeechWorks, the leading provider of over-the-telephone automated speech recognition (ASR) solutions, was founded. 1984 Dragon Systems was founded. 1982 DARPA established the Speech Understanding Research (SUR) program. A $3 million per year of government funds for 5 years. It was the largest speech recognition project ever. 1971 HMM approach to speech & voice recognition was invented by Lenny Baum of Princeton University Early 1970's AT&T's Bell Labs produced the first electronic speech synthesizer called the Voder. 1936
8. … timeline…continue Scansoft, Inc. is presently the world leader in the technology of Speech Recognition in the commercial market. ScanSoft Ships Dragon NaturallySpeaking 7 Medical, Lowers Healthcare Costs through Highly Accurate Speech Recognition. 2003 Lernout & Hauspie acquired Dragon Systems for approximately $460 million. 2000 Microsoft invested $45 million to allow Microsoft to use speech & voice recognition technology in their systems. 1998 Dragon introduced "Naturally Speaking", the first "continuous speech" dictation software available 1997
9. The Structure of ASR System: Functional Scheme of an ASR System Speech samples X Y S W * Database Signal Interface Feature Extraction Recognition Databases Training HMM
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12. Many databases are distributed by the Linguistic Data Consortium www.ldc.upenn.edu
13. Speech Signal Analysis Feature Extraction for ASR: - The aim is to extract the voice features to distinguish different phonemes of a language.