- Alexander I. Rudnicky, Alexander Hauptmann, Kai-Fu Lee. 1994. Survey of current speech technology. Abstract: Speech recognition and speech synthesis are technologies of particular interest for their support of direct communication between humans and computers through a communications mode humans commonly use among themselves and at which they are highly skilled. Both manipulate speech in terms of its information content; recognition transforms human speech into text to be used literally (e.g., for dictation) or interpreted as commands to control applications, and synthesis allows the generation of spoken utterances from text
