Spoken Language Recognition in an Office Management Domain

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