Spoken Language Recognition in an Office Management Domain

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