Toward Vision 2001: Voice and Audio Processing Considerations

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The broad goal of Vision 2001 is to provide seamless, easy-to-use, high-quality, and affordable communications between people and machines — anywhere and any time. To achieve this goal, the fields of computing, communications, and networking must converge in a variety of information terminals and network services. To make Vision 2001 a reality, there must be a significant number of advances in signal processing, computing, processing, networking, memory, and communications. This introductory paper examines the voice and audio processing implications of Vision 2001. It also discusses both current AT&T capabilities and areas in which these enablers are not yet sufficient to realize Vision 2001.