Language is one of the most important means of communication for human beings. It is intuitive and direct. When language meets technology, automatic speech recognition comes into play. Great progress has been made in this field over the last decades. Many people know the technology from telephone information services, navigation systems or dictation systems.
All of these applications aim at the communication of people with computers. The communication of people through media like telephones or the internet, however, is more complex. The EML is therefore developing systems for different fields of application that are used to teach the speech recognition system how people talk and what they say in certain situations.