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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Overview / Seiichi Nakagawa -- Large vocabulary continuous speech recognition efforts in Japan / Kiyohiro Shikano, Kazuya Takeda, Katunobu Itou and Tatsuya Kawahara -- Speech recognition system in NEC / Takao Watanabe, Kaichiro Hatazaki, Ken-ichi Iso, Ryosuke Isotani, Koichi Shinoda and Keizaburo Takagi -- IBM's Japanese dictation system / Masafumi Nishimura -- Real-time transcription system for simultaneous subtitling of broadcast news programs / Akio Ando and Toru Imai -- Modeling and generation of prosodic features / Keikichi Hirose -- Challenges for new speech synthesis applications / Masanobu Abe and Shin'ya Nakajima -- Concept-to-speech conversion system for spoken dialogue systems / Yoichi Yamashita -- Spoken dialogue systems in Japan - review / Tatsuya Kawahara -- The spoken dialogue system of TUT / Seiichi Nakagawa, Atsuhiko Kai and Toshihiko Itoh -- Spoken dialogue system DUG-1 / Kohji Dohsaka, Mikio Nakano, Kiyoaki Aikawa and Takeshi Kawabata -- Speech recognition techniques and applications developed by KDD / Norio Higuchi, Tohru Shimizu, Shingo Kuroiwa, Masaki Naito, Tsuneo Kato and Hisashi Kawai -- Multimodal systems and rapid-prototyping tools / Hiroshi Kanazawa, Hiroshi Matsuura, Hiroyuki Kamio and Tsuneo Nitta -- Multimodal interactive systems using speech and pointing gestures / Nobuo Hataoka, Haru Ando and Hideaki Kikuchi -- Realtime gesture-speech human interface realized on a personal computer of notebook size / Ryuichi Oka, Hironobu Takahashi, Takuichi Nishimura and Toshiro Mukai -- Multi-modal conversation robot participating group conversation / Yosuke Matsusaka and Tetsunori Kobayashi -- ATR-MATRIX : a spontaneous speech translation system and C-STAR / Toshiyuki Takezawa, Akio Yokoo and Seiichi Yamamoto -- Robust distant-talking speech recognition / Satoshi Nakamura -- Auditory-like acoustic processing / Hiroshi Matsumoto --

Language modeling and adaptation / Akinori Ito and Shozo Makino -- Spoken document retrieval using speaker and speech recognition / Yasuo Ariki -- Speaker verification / Tomoko Matsui -- Spoken language resources / Shuichi Itahashi, Katunobu Itou and Mikio Yamamoto -- Discourse annotation schemes for Japanese task-oriented dialogues / Masahiro Araki, Masato Ishizaki, Shu Nakazato and Yoichi Yamashita.