Updated MINDS Report on Speech Recognition and Understanding, Part 2

The second part of the updated version of "MINDS 2006-2007 Report of the Speech Understanding Working Group" is presented which came from two workshops entitled "Meeting of the MINDS: Future Directions for Human Language Technology". The specific topics being discussed include: the fundamental science of human speech perception and production; transcription to meaning extraction; understanding the cortical speech/language processing; the heterogeneous knowledge sources for automatic speech recognition; the information-bearing elements of the speech signal; the novel computational architectures for knowledge-rich speech recognition; the adaptation and self-learning in speech recognition systems; the robustness and context-awareness in acoustic models for speech recognition; the speaker's acoustic environment and the speech acquisition channel; the speaker characteristics and style; the language characteristics; robust speech recognition in everyday environments; and finally, the novel search procedures for knowledge-rich speech recognition.