Syrinx
Syrinx Speech Systems was an Australian company who developed automated
telephone dialogue systems with their own speech recogniser. I joined Syrinx early 1999 as head
of the Natural Language Processing group to lead the new NLP Research &
Development project, which was partly funded by a DIST R&D Start Grant
(STG00217, 1999-2000).
The aim of the NLP project was to design and implement a natural
language telephone dialogue system integrated with the Large Vocabulary Speech
Recogniser developed by Syrinx.
This was achieved within the time frame of the project and an
operational version of the system went into production in July 2001. However
Syrinx Speech Systems went into voluntary administration in September 2001 and
was liquidated soon afterwards.
During development, the NLP component was named SYLAN and early versions
of the system were demonstrated at the following venues:
·
OZCHI'2000.
·
RIAO'2000.
·
Call Centre
Solutions.
The SYLAN system is described in detail in:
Dominique Estival (2002). “The Syrinx Spoken
Language System”. International
Journal of Speech Technology. Vol.5. no.1. pp.85-96. (pdf)
I gave a number of presentations on the Syrinx NLP project:
In June 2001, I was invited to give a talk at the
Colloquium on "Interdisciplinary
Perspectives on Language Processing Colloquium" hosted by The Centre for Research in Language Processing
& Linguistics at the
Research
In 2000, Dr Dominique Estival (Syrinx), A.Prof Diana
Slade (UTS) and A.Prof Christian Matthiessen (Macquarie) were awarded a
“Strategic Partnership with Industry - Research and Training”
(SPIRT) project (ARC: C00106858) for a joint project between Syrinx, the
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