European Project Seeks to Advance Speech in Smart Homes From: Speech Technology - 01/17/2017 The EU project "LISTEN" is working on a robust, hands-free speech control interface for smart home systems. To develop smart home functionality, speech technology and signal processing experts from Germany, Greece, and Italy have begun to collaborate in a European Union project called "LISTEN," which seeks to develop a hands-free voice-enabled interface to web applications for smart home environments. They are designing a system enabling robust hands-free large-vocabulary voice-based access to Internet applications in smart homes using microphone array networks. In the mid-term project review meeting in Heraklion, Greece, the project partners demonstrated the system in four languages (English, German, Greek, and Italian). Functions of the project include multilingual speech recognition and the use of a microphone array, which is a matchbox-size unit with eight microphones. Read the entire article at: http://www.speechtechmag.com/Articles/News/Speech-Technology-News-Features/European-Project-Seeks-to-Advance-Speech-in-Smart-Homes-115816.aspx Links: When your smart home will "LISTEN" https://www.ics.forth.gr/index_main.php?l=e&n=5&id=79 LISTEN http://www.listen-project.eu