Helping Computers Understand Natural Human Speech

摘要

One of the fictional technologies on the "Star Trek" television series enabled humans to interact with a ship's computer system simply by talking. The sci-fi computer could understand entire sentences and converse almost naturally.rnIn today's automated world, rudimentary versions of the sci-fi technology come in the form of speech recognition systems that pick up key words and phrases to help consumers accomplish menial tasks. But the communications are often stilted and awkward at best, and limited in scope.