[lojban] Re: is there a phonologist in the house?

[Bob LeChevalier <lojban-out@lojban.org>]

Seth Gordon wrote:
> The whole discussion of mandatory pauses and audio-visual isomorphism
> reminds me of how speech-recognition software, back when I was paying
> attention to such things, required ... you ... to ... pause ... between
> ... words in order to understand what you were saying.
>
> If I understand correctly, 21st-century speech-recognition software does
> not require this.  Are they doing this by simply matching the speech
> stream against some kind of dictionary in order to guess where the word
> breaks are, or are there subtle changes in pronounciation that people
> use to mark word boundaries even in connected speech?

What I was told a couple of years ago, is that later speech recognition 
was not merely phonological, but relied on dictionaries and grammar as 
well.  (I believe that there was some interest at Dragon Systems in 
Lojban speech recognition, but it would have required money that no one 
had).

lojbab



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