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I can answer questions about speech recognition and natural language understanding. I am particulary strong in knowedge based natural langauge techniques. I cannot answer questions about robotics, nueral nets, prolog, or vision recognition - just speech and natural language.

Experience in the area

I have spent 25 years developing natural language software products. I have never developed speech systems, but I have developed sophisticated interfaces from natural language to speech. I have been working with speech recognition systems also for 25 years.

What do you like about this subject?

Imagine being able to talk to your computer and have it understand you and help you get your work done. Imagine not needing to learn complex software menu trees, becuase you just ask and the system does it for you. This is what is just now occuring in the speech and natural language fields.

What do you still hope to achieve/learn in this field?

I am currently working on a 7th generation natural language engine that is regarded by peers in my field as one the most advanced in existance. Our vision is to allow people to talk to machines without knowing any technical jargon and get the results they need.

Something interesting about this subject that others may not know:

Speech recognition and natural language are just now reaching a crital mass of capability. This technology is just now breaking out in a big way.

Something controversial or provocative about this subject

While some people have bad experiences with speech or language recognition in the past, steady progress has been nade over the past several decades. This has been and still is the most difficult area of computer science

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Recent Answers from Chuck Cosby

2010-01-30 plz help me i want to controll my robot through my computer..plz help me and give me easiet way to interface it..:

I am not a hardware or robotics expert. Maybe you can connect to it using Bluetooth. I suggest you look at the Lego Mindstorm robots. They have a computer built into them and you can use the 'Lego' universe

2010-01-10 hardware and software:

I don't really understand the question. Hardware and software have been changing dramatically for 50 years - you want a historty of those changes? That would be a really big answer. short story: Eniac

2009-12-08 Research in AI/Robotics:

MIT has the 'Media Lab' which is vary famous for cutting edge AI reseach in all kinds of areas. (AI is a big field). Carnige Mellon, and SRI International also have good programs. MIT also has the 'Cambridge

2009-12-05 Please HElp:

do a google search on the prase 'text to speech' this will yield many systems that do this. they all have a different accent and sound so you will have to try them all. Many of them have web based testing

2009-11-30 AI- Expert System:

This link will help: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expert_system They have great info. I think this field has had only limited success, very few of these systems really work - (if any). It's not my

 

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