http://www.evil.eu/vhumanspeech.html

The Video shown here has been produced by Dr Tom Moir of Massey University in New Zealand. The Massey Speech Project is an ongoing reseach endeavour into the use of speech recognition in realistic noisy environments such as factories, open offices and homes. The speech recognition technology used here is Microsoft SAPI5.3 (a significant improvement on the earlier windows XP SAPI5.1 version).

The Avatar used in this video demonstration is a Beta version of Denise - a creation from Guile 3D a world leader in Virtual Human artwork and associated technologies. The Avatar is implemented as a Microsoft Agent on VISTA. The Avatar is linked in this context with Speech Synthesis and AIML (a natural language, case based reasoning engine from the ALICE Foundation). The Video demonstrates the speech recognition of short sentences against the background music coupled with the ability of the Vitual Human to translate the commands into actions such as retrieving information from the internet.

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The Video demonstrates the speech recognition of short sentences against the background music coupled with the ability of the Vitual Human to translate the commands into actions such as retrieving information from the internet.

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The Video demonstrates the speech recognition of short sentences against the background music coupled with the ability of the Virtual Human to translate the commands into actions such as retrieving information from the internet.

Hopefully, this is helpful to Dr. Tom Moir of Massey University in New Zealand .

Other references:
http://www.speechresearch.co.nz/vista.html