Report on Voice and Speech Processing
Outline

February 1998

1. Executive Summary
   1. The Results of this Study
   2. High-Level Review of Each Section of the Study
      
2. Introduction
   1. The Roots of this Study
   2. The Study Methodology
   3. How to Use this Study
      
3. A History of Voice Technology
   1. Early Research
      1. The Academic Research Centers and their early focus
   2. Early Products
   3. Limits to Market Acceptance
      
4. The Voice Technologies
   1. Discrete Word Voice Recognition
   2. Continuous Speech Voice Recognition
   3. Text-to-Speech
   4. Statistical models versus Expert Systems
   5. The Role of Natural Language Processing
   6. Machine Translation
      
5. Related Technologies
   1. Natural Language Processing
   2. Signal Processing
      
6. The Voice Technology Applications
   1. Industrial Applications
   2. Dictation
   3. Interface
      1. Ease of Use
      2. Humanization of the Computer
      3. Hands-Free
   4. Access
   5. Understanding
   6. Conversation
   7. Translation
      
7. The Voice Technology Vendors (at least 10, including IBM, Dragon Systems, Lernout & Hauspie, Phillips)
   
8. The Voice Technology Marketplace
   1. Historical Market Structure
      1. Vendors
      2. Distribution
   2. Current Market Structure
      1. Vendors
      2. Distribution
         1. Direct
         2. VAR’s and SI’s
         3. Voice VAR’s
         4. Retail
         5. OEM
         6. Embedded Systems
   3. Future Market Structure
      1. Vendors
      2. Distribution
   4. Sizing the Market
      1. Estimates of Market Size
      2. Predicting Market Readiness
      3. Comparing the Voice Technology Market to Related Markets
         1. Traditional Dictation
         2. Desktop Telephony
   5. The importance of Accuracy
      1. How Important is Accuracy?
      2. Creating an Accuracy Index
         
9. Customer Plans (based on 50 or more telephone interviews)
   1. What are customers doing now
   2. What are customers’ plans
   3. What would customers like to do
      
10. Predicting the Future
    1. The Academic Research Centers and their Focus
    2. Aggregating the Study Data
    3. Interviewing Visionaries (based on expert interviews)
    4. Predictions

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