In the health industry, I've frequently run into the following predicament: User IDs are no longer simple numeric fields. Traditionally, an employee's Social Security number may have been used as an id, but HIPAA has put an end to that. For speech recognition, this could present a common tuning and …

One of the fundamental tasks in creating speech applications is building the grammars for automated speech recognition (ASR). This entry features techniques to make your grammar-building code fast, efficient and maintainable. In many situations, it is unrealistic to design and build your grammars in development and deploy them as static …