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 on the project website.

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