SLS RESEARCH

Since its formation in 1989, the SLS group has focused its research on the creation of technology that enables humans to interact with computers using natural spoken language. In pursuit of this goal SLS students and researchers are actively engaged in a number of research projects. Some of the current projects are:

• Conversational Human/Computer Interaction
• Multimodal Processing and Interaction
• Multilingual Interaction
• Speech and Language Processing of Media
• Second Language Acquisition
• Speech and pen-based interaction on the web
• Spoken interaction on small handheld devices
• Vehicle-based interaction

• speech recognition (SUMMIT)
• natural language understanding (TINA)
• dialogue modeling
• language generation (GENESIS)
• speech synthesis (ENVOICE)

• City Browser provides information about restaurants in serveral cities.
• Movie Browser provides information about movies.
• Flight Browser lets you obtain information about flight schedules.
• Weather Query provides information about the weather.
• ISLANDS language-learning suite provides speech-based systems for Interactive Second Language Acquisition in Narrow Domains.