Abstract

This paper gives an overview of the state-of-the-art human-computer interface technologies based on automotlc speech recognition and text-to-speech synthesis. It also describes the recent R&D activities ot the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) in this challenging field. Speech is the most convenient and natural means of communication among human beings. By enabling the computer to listen and speak, speech technologies have empowered many important applications that improve our quality of life. Hong Kong is a trilingual society where people speak Cantonese, Putonghua as well as English. While a great deal of efforts have been spent on speech and language processing for English and Putonghua in Western countries and China, the Speech Research Group at CUHK is well known to be one of theJew pioneers who Initiated extensive study on Cantonesejacused speech technologies. Cantonese is a major Chinese direct spoken by over 70 million people in South China and Hong Kong. We shall introduce the various speeCh...

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