LINGUISTICS 35Q - STANFORD UNIVERSITY

Computers and Human Language

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Class notes: for Thursday, January 31

Stanford's Center for the Study of Language and Information has a number of projects going that are relevant to this course. Check out their website at www-csli.stanford.edu and look under the Research and Events headings for more information.

Here are some useful websites for speech technologies:

Microsoft Agent: www.microsoft.com/msagent/

Oregon Graduate Institute's toolkit for speech synthesis & recognition: cslu.cse.ogi.edu/toolkit/

AT&T's Natural Voices speech synthesis demos: www.naturalvoices.att.com/demos/

Compaq's SpeechBot voice indexing system: speechbot.research.compaq.com/

Nuance's Voyager voice browser: www.nuance.com/demos/demo-voicebrowsing.html 

Class assignment reminder: for Tuesday, January 15

1. Read Language Files 1 and 3 prior to class. If you have no prior experience with linguistics, pay particular attention to what it is the field attempts to do.

2. If you're interested in the Babylon dictionary we saw Thursday, it's at www.babylon.com