Applications of the kind targeted are unified messaging, information retrieval, customer care, banking, WAP and service portals.

The consortium will conduct various surveys of the OrienTel region (notably a linguistic survey), compile a set of 26 linguistic databases, conduct research into ASR-related problems the OrienTel languages hold, and develop demonstrator applications bearing evidence of OrienTel’s multilingual orientation.

Further details about this project are available at the following address : www.speechdat.org/ORIENTEL/index.html

ELDA participate actively in the project, and will distribute the 26 databases.

Start date : September 2001

Co-ordinators and contact information at Philips Speech Processing

  rainer.siemund@philips.com
  barbara.heuft@philips.com

Consortium partners

  Philips Speech Processing
  IBM
  University of Patras
  Natural Speech Communication
  Lucent Technologies
  ELDA
  Knowledge
  Siemens
  UPC