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Speech Technology in the Year 2001
Pages 445-449

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... To achieve this long-term goal, the authors advocate a fundamental research program using a cybernetic approach substantially different from more conventional synthetic approaches. In a cybernetic approach, feedback control systems will allow a machine to adapt to a linguistically rich environment using reinforcement learning.
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From page 446...
... Marcus in the area of natural language. The paragraphs above are a slightly edited version of an audio recording of Frank Fallside's introduction of this session of the colloquium.
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From page 447...
... Thus, although never explicitly stated, the thrust of all three presentations is a clear call for fundamental research to resolve some of the critical questions surrounding speech communication. As such, these papers stand in direct opposition to the sentiments expressed in the session on speech technology to the effect that there are no fundamental impediments to the application of speech technology.
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From page 448...
... The chairman did not try to steer the discussion toward the more philosophical aspects of the presentations even though his opening remarks were of a decidedly philosophical tone. Nor did he choose to appropriate any of the discussion period to report on his own research program even though it is aimed squarely at solving some of the fundamental problems raised by the session's speakers.
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From page 449...
... If, however, the problem admits of a solution, as I believe it does, the resulting technology will be of historic proportions. Frank Fallside did not live to see his research program carried out.
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