title: A commercial large-vocabulary discrete speech recognition system: DragonDictate.
abstract: DragonDictate is currently the only commercially available general-purpose, large-vocabulary speech recognition system. It uses discrete speech and is speaker-dependent, adapting to the speaker's voice and language model with every word. Its acoustic adaptability is based in a three-level phonology and a stochastic model of production. The phonological levels are phonemes, augmented triphones (phonemes-in-context or PICs), and steady-state spectral slices that are concatenated to approximate the spectra of these PICs (phonetic elements or PELs) and thus of words. Production is treated as a hidden Markov process, which the recognizer has to identify from its output, the spoken word. Findings of practical value to speech recognition are presented from research on six European languages.
authors.affiliation: Dragon Systems, Inc., Newton, MA 02160.
authors.forename: M A
authors.initials: MA
authors.lastname: Mandel
mesh_terms: D005260:Female; D005858:Germany; D006801:Humans; D007802:Language; D008297:Male; D008390:Markov Chains; D010700:Phonetics; D013060:Speech; D013061:Speech Acoustics; D013067:Speech Perception; D014825:Vocabulary