MaryTTS – Introduction
The past three decades have brought dramatic changes in the way we live and work. This phenomenon is widely characterized as the advent of the Information Society. It is fueled by the power of information technology to acquire, store, process and transmit data compactly, inexpensively, and at greater speeds than ever before. Two decades ago most digital content was textual. Today, graphics and audiovisual I/O devices are in widespread use and modern devices have multimedia capabilities. As a result, current
Given these trends, the Cluster of Excellence on Multimodal Computing and Interaction (MMCI) has addressed the challenge to organize, understand, and search multimodal information in a robust, efficient, intelligent and privacy preserving manner, and to create dependable systems that support natural and intuitive multi- modal interaction. We have successfully made major inroads towards the Deep Integration of Language and Knowledge, Augmented Reality, Multimodal Dialog with the Environment, and Information
The Cluster of Excellence on Multimodal Computing and Interaction (MMCI) was established by the German Research Foundation (DFG) within the framework of the German Excellence Initiative in 2007 and successfully renewed in 2012.
MaryTTS – Introduction