Talking About Speech Technology at CeBit 
Vendors prepare multilingual, multidevice speech recognition products.

by Nancy Weil, IDG News Service 
March 22, 1999, 9:56 a.m. PT 


At the CeBit trade show in Hannover, Germany, Lernout & Hauspie demonstrated
a multilingual chat application that combines a number of speech-related
technologies and lets people communicate in their natural language to others
who might not speak the same language. In a demonstration, an English speaker
talked with a German speaker, their words translated by L&H technology.  

The company won't ship the software until later this year because "the voice
(that speaks the translated words) sounds like a robot. We want to introduce
it with a real human voice," says Gaston Bastiaens, president and CEO of L&H.  

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