Multilingual Speech Recognisers
Speech recognition technology has matured over the past few years and is making its way in to many applications. Applications like speech activated IVRs like airline reservation systems have become quite common place these days. Currently there are no multilingual speech recognisers available in the market. The reason for this is that adding the cues and characteristics for recognition of speech of multiple languages in the same database make it very confusing for the recognisers. The recognisers for individual languages e.g. English are very accurate and efficient but put together the systems fall apart.

Alivox provides a solution for this through its product – ALiS. ALiS can act as a switching front-end to a battery of monolingual speech recognisers. As the speaker will speak, the speech will first pass through ALiS. ALiS will process this speech and identify the language of the speech. Once identified, it will route the rest of the speech from the speaker, to the speech recogniser that recognises in that language. Hence the overall system will become multilingual.

Multilingual speech recognisers will open way to a whole set of new applications that will cater for a much wider customer base.