The director of the Institute of Automation under
Chinese Academy of
Sciences (CAS), Tan Tieniu, announced in Beijing Thursday that
his fellow scientists have successfully developed voice pattern
recognition technology for the Chinese language.
The CAS researchers made new inventions along the lines of related
technology created by multi-internationals such as IBM and Intel.
They say they can now easily process voice information on about
60,000 Chinese words and also continuous speech in Chinese.
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national appraisal team said that the technology developed bythe
CAS researchers was the best of its kind in the world. The CAS
institute has applied for eight patents related to the technology,
Tan said.
At
the news briefing, Ma Songde, vice minister of Science and
Technology, said that the Chinese scientists' advances in this
field would give the country more market share in products using
Chinese-language voice recognition technology.
A
high-technology company whose major stake is held by the CAS
institute has produced a range of software used for mobile
telecommunication, the Internet, stock information databases and
remote controls.
Western scientists and futurists regard voice recognition
technology as one of the ten which might most influence human
society in the first decade of the 21st century.
The Chinese scientists have worked on the technology for 15 years,
and their efforts have got support from the nation's high-tech
programs.
( June 28, 2002)