Abstract
Speech and language technologies are parts of AI family of tools and methods that already have an economic impact; they are assumed to extend that impact in the near future. We analyze the contributions of several average and small central European countries to these fields in terms of papers published. We compare these contributions with those of France and Germany and establish relationships between the efficiency measured by scientific publications between subfields of speech and language technologies. We find that Czech Republic is more efficient in terms of papers per inhabitant even than Germany. Czech Republic excels too when the number of papers is divided by the population of tertiary education. Also, we find interesting strong and low correlations between subdomains.

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