Spoken language recognition in an office management domain

Fast and accurate speech recognition systems bring with them the possibility of designing flexible voice driven applications. In this paper, we highlight the needs related to a voice interface and describe the implementation of a general-purpose spoken language interface, the Camegie Mellon Spoken Language Shell (CM-SLS). CM-SLS provides voice interface services to different applications running on the same computer. CM-SLS was used to build the Office Manager, a collection of applications that includes an appointment calendar, a personal database, voice mail and a calculator. The performance of several system components is described