Speech understanding systems

✍ Scribed by A. Newell; J. Barnett; J.W. Forgie; C. Green; D. Klatt; J.C.R. Licklider; J. Munson; D.R. Reddy; W.A. Woods

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1972
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 73 KB
• Volume: 3
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0004-3702
• DOI: 10.1016/0004-3702(72)90053-7

✦ Synopsis

This report is being published under the aegis of the journa! Artificial Intelligence. The journal will, from time to time, publish as special issues reports, monographs, surveys, etc., which for some good reason---e.g, sizeuare not appropriate for incorporation in its regular runs. This is the first such.

It is substantially the report prepared by a group of distinguished American computer scientists, under the chairmanship of Professor Allen Neweli, for the Advanced Research Projects Agency (A.R.P.A.) of the U.S. Department of Defense. Some minor editorial changes have been made, to make it more suitable for an international scientific readership. It is so important a document, addressed to one of the most difficult and challenging issues of artificial intelligence, that it is really a public duty for the journal to make it far more easily available and accessible than it was in its original form as an A.R.P.A. report.

The study is correctly named as being of speech understanding rather than speech recognition, thu~ indicating its dedication to the central theme of current research in A.~. Although the study group has ceased to exist as ~uch, the report has been followed by a substantial research and development effort. This effort involves a high degree of continuing cooperation among all of the various participating resea~'ch groups. The field of artificial intelligence faces a genuine problem of how to organize to create large systems that are far too dependent on new research to be handled as pure development efforts, yet involve much of the paced and managed engineering approach appropriate to attaining well-defined complex technical goals. This experiment in cooperation adds to the purely scientific interest of the document.

The Editors of the journal are grateful to the Advanced Research Projects Agency for permission an(; co-operation in bringing out this issue.