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Overview: HLT industry in South Africa

Overview: HLT industry in South Africa. E Barnard. Goals. Discuss Areas of significant commercial activity Primary commercial role players for Speech technology Text technology (natural language processing). Main industrial activities. Telephone-based information systems

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Overview: HLT industry in South Africa

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  1. Overview: HLT industry in South Africa E Barnard

  2. Goals Discuss • Areas of significant commercial activity • Primary commercial role players for • Speech technology • Text technology (natural language processing)

  3. Main industrial activities • Telephone-based information systems • Dialogue systems: flight schedules, financial services, … • Speaker verification: banking, call centres • Document proofing systems • Spelling checkers, hyphenators, grammar checkers, … (Microsoft, open source)

  4. Main commercial players: text technology • CTexT (North-West University): proofing tools, language learning, translation (assistance) • TshwaneDJE: tools for lexicography, including HLT components • Trados: translation assistance (limited localization) • (Media24: media company with substantial text resources & interest in HLT)

  5. Main commercial players: speech technology • Intelleca Voice & Mobile: Nuance-based applications, development of ASR/TTS in SAE/Afrikaans for Nuance • DataVoice: speaker verification, speech data mining • CatchWord: SAE for IBM, SAE/Afrikaans for Telisma, speech-to-speech translation (Navy), Mobile E-Learning For Africa • Grintek: speech data mining • (Dimension Data: Nuance-based applications – successful in Australia)

  6. Contextualization • Deployment of HLTs • Localization of HLTs • Development of tools • Development of new technologies

  7. Motivation • Voice dialing for mobile telco (~1995) • Dialing from open convertible … • Or moving car … • Or mobile in office … • Or landline HLT does not transfer like “normal” software!

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