Toward a real-time spoken language system using commercial hardware

  • Authors:
  • Steve Austin;Pat Peterson;Paul Placeway;Richard Schwartz;Jeff Vandergrift

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-;-;-;-

  • Venue:
  • HLT '90 Proceedings of the workshop on Speech and Natural Language
  • Year:
  • 1990

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Abstract

We describe the methods and hardware that we are using to produce a real-time demonstration of an integrated Spoken Language System. We describe algorithms that greatly reduce the computation needed to compute the N-Best sentence hypotheses. To avoid grammar coverage problems we use a fully-connected first-order statistical class grammar. The speech-search algorithm is implemented on a board with a single Intel i860 chip, which provides a factor of 5 speedup over a SUN 4 for straight C code. The board plugs directly into the VME bus of the SUN4, which controls the system and contains the natural language system and application back end.