\mysection{Speech Recognition}
\label{speech}

\mysubsection{Speech Recognition Components}

The partners of NESPOLE! already have the infrastructure, the research teams
and many years of experience in building large vocabulary speech recognition
systems in the languages of the project. Since the proposed effort will focus
on making available STST technologies in practical and commercial situations,
the focus of our HLT activities will concentrate on the language/translation
capabilities in view of the broader domain requirements and of the integration
of HLT with multimedia and multimodal supported long distance
collaboration. For speech recognition components we will therefore leverage
off as much as possible of on-going speech research efforts at the partners'
laboratories and limit the speech activity under NESPOLE! to integration and
adaptation of their state-of-the art systems in the NESPOLE! environment and
task domains. This activity will include expanding and adjusting pronunciation
dictionaries and language models to the domains at hand, and adaptations of
the recognition engines to the channel requirements of the interconnected
systems.

