General recommendations

• There are great market prospects in speech & language technology (RED)
  • Hence, larger coordinated efforts are needed to continue the promotion of research and innovations in SLE for developing new applications using the integration of speech and language. (SLE 9)
• There is a need for new researchers in all areas of language and speech. (CL 1, PHONE 1)
• There is a need for new updated curricula (i.e. development of educational and research infrastructure according to well recognized standards), balancing between theory and practice. (CL 7, SLE 2, SLE 8)
  • There is a need for the adaptation of educational technology infrastructure to current innovations imposed by the market or research imperatives. (SLE 7)
• There needs to be retraining of staff according to changing (of industrial/social) needs within language and speech . (SLE 8, SLE 11)
  • Industry, national and international bodies should continue to support projects for the development, testing and evaluation of advanced training modules for SLE, including ODL and LLL. ISCA-SIG on education can play an important role. (SLE 11)
• Standards of cooperation with industry need to be developed. (NEL 8, CL 10)
• Cooperation with East European countries and non-European countries in long term cooperative projects must be fostered (NEL 15, 16, SLE 8)
• trategic needs across multilingual Europe need to be developed (SLE 1)
• There is a need for dedicated training models addressed to various job profiles (SLE 3)