Speech recognition technology key for third world</tile> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"> <meta http-equiv="description" content="Speech recognition technology key for third world"> <meta http-equiv="keywords" content="Speech,recognition,technology,key,for,third,world"> </head> <body> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td width="10" height="39"> </td> <td width="99%" height="39"> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td width="16%"><a href="http://inttranews.inttra.net"><img src="http://inttranews.inttra.net/images/inttranews_grey_2.jpg" width="192" height="37" border="0"></a></td> <td width="50%" valign="middle"> <p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"><b><font color="#CCCCCC" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="1">KNOW.<br> HOW.</font></b></font> </p> </td> <td width="34%" align="right" valign="top"><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="1" color="#666666">09-02-2005</font></td> </tr> </table> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="10"> </td> <td width="99%" > </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="10"> </td> <td width="99%" > <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td width="100%"><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"> <b>Speech recognition technology key for third world</b></font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="100%"> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="100%"> <img src="http://inttranews.inttra.net/img_news/img_twllkQ0ReJ35SF6HZVcZ_0.jpg" align="left" vspace="5" hspace="5" ><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">California, USA (AScribe Newswire): Speech recognition, especially in combination with text-to-speech and visual user interfaces, may be key in increasing access to technology to those with limited or no literacy. <br>Researchers at International Computer Science Institute (ICSI) will demonstrate speech recognition technology developed for India with UC Berkeley's TIER Project (Technology and Infrastructure for Emerging Regions) as part of the UCB BEARS Conference on Feb. 10. <br>Technologies developed for the affluent world and imported to developing regions often fail to address key challenges in cost, deployment, power consumption, and support for semi-literate and illiterate users. <br> <br>For more information, please visit: <br><a href="http://newswire.ascribe.org/cgi-bin/behold.pl?ascribeid=20050208.154803&time=16%2048%20PST&year=2005&public=0 " target="blank">newswire.ascribe.org/cgi-bin/behold.pl?ascribeid=20050208.154803&time=16%2048%20PST&year=2005&public=0 </a> <br></font></td> </tr> </table> </td></tr> </table> <script type="text/javascript"></script> <script type="text/javascript" src="<http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show