Speech technology

Bangor University has received £120,000 in funding to establish a research network for speech and language technologies (SALT) in Wales.

The university intends to use the two-year grant to create a special interest group through which industry and academia can collaborate on the development of new language software and speech technology.

Industry leaders in e-commerce, e-health and educational software have already been approached to join the network.

However, the university said that it could also benefit companies that operate in a multilingual environment.

Gruffudd Prys, project manager, said: ‘Our Language Technology Unit is being approached by companies asking where they can get multilingual proofing tools, machine translation aids or speech technology applications to include in their products, or whether such things exist for the languages they work with.