One can listen to news at a number of speech-enabled web sites (Radio Television of Serbia - RTS, Radio Television of Vojvodina - RTV, eUprava, as well as several municipalities) using a computer or a smart phone. The visually impaired can listen to any text displayed on the screen using the software anReader based on AlfaNumTTS. The AlfaNumASR and AlfaNumTTS components have provided smart phones with basic speech generation and understanding functionalities in Serbian.
Further development of both large vocabulary ASR and more advanced TTS is based on the aforementioned speech and language resources. Both technologies will enable a much wider range of applications and will contribute to the preservation of Serbian and kindred languages in this new domain of communication – spoken dialogue between humans and machines.
Speech is the basic means of communication between humans
Using speech, humans can convey their thoughts and feelings to others in a way much more intricate than in any other animal species, and thus the human speech system is the most complicated one...
Automatic speech recognition (ASR) is considered one of the greatest technical challenges of today, attracting attention of many researchers worldwide for more than half a century...
Text-to-Speech Synthesis (TTS) is the oldest speech technology, originating from as early as the 18th century, when first "speaking machines" appeared...
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