The Project
On these pages you will find detailed information on
the setup of SPEECON
Contact
The contact page shows who is involved in SPEECON
Public Documents
Progress reports, specifications, validation criteria, publications
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Related Sites
Links that may be interesting to visitors of the SPEECON pages
Internal
Documents only available for SPEECON participants
You do the
talking!
SPEECON, launched in February 2000, 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 Siemens and promotes
the development of voice controlled consumer applications (CE) such as television sets, video recorders,
mobile phones, palmtop computers, car navigation kits or even microwave ovens and
toasters. Instead of operating these devices manually, all users of future CE applications
have to do is simply talk to their equipment. Like other IST projects supported by the EU, 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 linguistic data and technological
know-how that will enable companies to develop speech-driven applications in the consumer
electronics domain.
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, which are, like the
typical surroundings of CE applications, at home, in the office, in public places or in
moving vehicles. Project details can be viewed on the page called The Project. You get back to this page by clicking on the
SPEECON logo top left.
is a
project focusing on collecting linguistic data for speech recogniser training. SPEECON is
funded as a shared-cost project under Human Language Technologies (
and promotes
the development of voice controlled consumer applications (CE) such as television sets,
video recorders,
mobile phones, palmtop computers, car navigation kits or even microwave ovens and
toasters. Instead of operating these devices manually,
all users of future CE applications
have to do is simply talk to their equipment. Like other IST projects supported by the EU,
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 linguistic
data and technological
know-how that will enable companies to develop speech-driven applications in the consumer
electronics domain.
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,
which are, like the
typical surroundings of CE applications, at home, in the office, in public places or in
moving vehicles. Project details can be viewed on the page called 
