1. Overview: HLT industry in South Africa E Barnard

2. Goals Discuss Areas of significant commercial activity Primary commercial role players for Speech technology Text technology (natural language processing)

3. Main industrial activities Telephone-based information systems –Dialogue systems: flight schedules, financial services, … –Speaker verification: banking, call centres Document proofing systems –Spelling checkers, hyphenators, grammar checkers, … (Microsoft, open source)

4. Main commercial players: text technology CTexT (North-West University): proofing tools, language learning, translation (assistance) TshwaneDJE: tools for lexicography, including HLT components Trados: translation assistance (limited localization) (Media24: media company with substantial text resources & interest in HLT)

5. Main commercial players: speech technology Intelleca Voice & Mobile: Nuance-based applications, development of ASR/TTS in SAE/Afrikaans for Nuance DataVoice: speaker verification, speech data mining CatchWord: SAE for IBM, SAE/Afrikaans for Telisma, speech-to-speech translation (Navy), Mobile E-Learning For Africa Grintek: speech data mining (Dimension Data: Nuance-based applications – successful in Australia)

6. Contextualization Deployment of HLTs Localization of HLTs Development of tools Development of new technologies

7. Motivation Voice dialing for mobile telco (~1995) –Dialing from open convertible … –Or moving car … –Or mobile in office … –Or landline HLT does not transfer like “normal” software!