Current And Experimental Applications Of Speech Technology For Telecom Services In Europe

This paper provides a 'snapshot' of telephony based speech technology research within European telecommunications companies. It focuses on operational and experimental telephone services exploiting speech in France, UK, Italy, Germany, Spain and Portugal and summarizes the current status of a European project (EURESCOM P502: "Multilingual Interactive Voice Activated telephone services (MIVA)"). (C) 1997 Published by Elsevier Science B.V.