Acoustic Recognition: tone modeling and recognition, unit selection and acoustic modeling, keyword spotting, handling noise and channel effect, speaker adaptation, speaker verification, etc.
Linguistic Processing: language modeling, Chinese word classification, analysis with respect to different subject domains, model adaptation, semantic analysis and language understanding, PAT-tree-based approaches, segment pattern and key phrase extraction, document classification, etc.
Integrated Acoustic/ Linguistic Processing: pronunciation modeling and lexicon adaptation, spontaneous and telephone speech processing, syllable-based one-pass search, prosody modeling, speech understanding, dialogue modeling and analysis, speech-based retrieval models and features, etc.
Academic Prototype Systems: dictation systems, text-to-speech systems, dialogue systems, speech-based information retrieval systems, etc.
Directions towards Network Environment: client-server architecture, speech human-network interface, network resource adapted lexicon and language model, network corpora processing, distributed speech processing under wireless environment, etc.