Practical Applications of Natural Language Processing in Assistive Technology May 20, 2008

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Google Tech Talks
May, 15 2008

ABSTRACT

Ken Ingham, Ph.D. will describe the architecture and motivation behind the
development of Amazability, Inc.'s Adept1 product. The Adept1 performs
natural language analysis and interprets spoken words and phrases or typed
input. It accepts and interprets verbal commands and responds with high
quality speech. The Adept1 is equipped with voice recognition and
text-to-speech output that dynamically adapts multilingual spoken output to
context. The Adept1 offers such applications as word processing, email,
address book, web browsing, and access to an online library of thousands of
books. These applications along with others have been developed from the
ground up to work with speech and have a common command language throughout.
They can be employed using ordinary speech or typed words and sentences.
Thus the product represents a foundation for implementing practical natural
language transaction processing where simple English phrases and sentences
are interpreted to command a sequence of complex operations. While the
Company's founders are offering a vehicle that can be used as a full
programmer's workstation, the operating system is hidden with all
applications designed to be used by person's with minimal or no technical
background. The Adept1 will be demonstrated and a roadmap for future
applications will be given.