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=ASR=

==ASR Kernel development==

[[http://cslt.riit.tsinghua.edu.cn/mediawiki/index.php/2013-12-20  ASR group weekly report]]

==TTS==

* This week
:* Delivered a female voice
:* Delivered a tunable pitch/speaking rate
:* Male voice labeling finished

* Next week
:* Pronunciation dictionary check

=Dialog system=

==Statistical approach==

* A preliminary book-search demo is ready, with 400 books, 6 properties, 10 patterns.
* Looks fine, while the pattern set is still limited
* Need to expand the patterns and properties and enrich the functionality.
* Looking for more efficient pattern match/learning approach.


==Template matching==

* New words extraction
:* Extracting person names
:* Rule-based extraction, consider surname, name convention
:* N-gram non-names filtering out 
:* Filter out candidates with active word embedded
:* Check possible names by search engine

=System design=

* Interface implementation on going (dimension management).
* Deadline is 14/1/17