Internationalization

• The speech research community is growing closer together and there is a great need for the internationalization of the speech environments.

• The focus in the speech research community is on multilingual recognition and translation systems.

• There are several multilingual speech recognizers are that are being built in different parts of the world.

• Speech transcriptions are primarily being done in the local languages.

• There is a great need to incorporate a universal 16-bit encoding for the scripts of the world's principal languages.