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Progress in Speech Recognition Technology at NEC

Year System/Product Product
System Field Network Field Semiconductor Field
1960 Prototype voice typewriter
(with Kyoto University)
     
1970 DP matching      
78   Continuous speech recognition equipment:
DP-100
   
1980     speech recognition system:
SR-1000
 
83 Automated interpretation system
(Telecom83)
    Speech recognition LSI:
uPD7764
87 Demi-syllable recognition technique      
1990        
91 Demonstration of an automatic-interpretation experiment
(Telecom91)
     
93   PC speech recognition software:
Windows Sound System
   
94   Large-vocabulary speech recognition equipment:
DS-1000
   
95       Speech recognition LSI:
uPD775254
Speech recognition middleware:
ULTALKER
96     Telephone speech recognition system:
DS-8000
 
97   Speech-based e-mail software:
Shabette-ii Mail 1.0
   
98       Cell phone with voice search:
N206S
99 Demonstration of an automatic-interpretation experiment
(Telecom99)
PC speech recognition software:
SmartVoice
Telephone speech recognition system:
DS-X(T)
 
01   Noise-resistant speech recognition equipment:
DS-X(M)
Automatic-interpretation software:
Tabitsu
   
02 PDA interpretation software
(Narita Airport field trials)
  Auto-answering speech recognition equipment:
VoiceOperator
Web voice integration software:
Moirissimo
 
03       Cell phone with mail read-out function:
N505iS
04 Automatic interpretation terminal for travelers
(Narita Airport field trials)
     
05   Noise-resistance speech recognition PDA:
VoiceDo/HT
Speech recognition software for call centers:
VisualVoice