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* RESEARCH TOPICS - SPEECH COMMUNICATION AND SPEECH LANGUAGE UNDERSTANDING [#yb7e4465]
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**Introduction [#lcb0c9ee]
> Speech communication is necessary technology to answer
the user's utterance.
This technology can communicate between the computer and user.~
Also, study of spoken dialog system has a wide-range
due to this system is complicated system.
** Study fields [#hec23ef3]
*** Spoken language recognition [#gc97ba78]
> Unlike written language, spoken language contains speech error,
hesitation in speech, and so on.
So recognition performance depends on the way of speaking.~
Study of Spoken language recognition is try to improve
recognition performance.
*** Answer selection [#n6e3434b]
> The system selects answer when the system is given a utterance
from user.~
Answer selection is study of how to select answer to improve
the system performance.
*** Develop a spoken dialog system [#m03eb79d]
> We have been trying to develop a public information kiosk based
on a spoken dialog system to contribute to society.~
This system called "Nitech Campus information Guidance System",
This system called "NITech Campus information Guidance System",
and is located at the ground floor of second building in Nagoya
Institute of Technology.~
Also, this system can guide users about public facilities, weather
forecasts, and so on.
