Computer Speech: Recognition, Compression, Synthesis

✍ Scribed by Professor Dr. Manfred R. Schroeder (auth.)

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
• Year: 2004
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 398
• Series: Springer Series in Information Sciences 35
• Edition: 2
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

The first edition having been sold out, gives me a welcome opportunity to augment this volume by some recent applications of speech research. A new chapter, by Holger Quast, treats speech dialogue systems and natural lan­ guage processing. Dictation programs for word processors, voice dialing for mobile phones, and dialogue systems for air travel reservations, automated banking, and translation over the telephone are at the forefront of human-machine inter­ faces. Spoken language dialogue systems are also invaluable for the physically handicapped. For researchers new to the field, the new chapter (pp. 67-106) provides an overview of fundamental linguistic concepts from phonetics, morphology, syntax, semantics and pragmatics, gramm ars and knowedge representation. Symbolic methodology, such as Norman Chomsky's traditional hierarchy of formal languages is layed out as are statistical approaches to analyze text. Proven tools of language processing are covered in detail, including finite­ state automata, Zipf's law, trees annd parsers. The second part of the new chapter introduces the building blocks of state-of-the-art dialogue systems.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages I-XXXIV
Introduction....Pages 1-21
A Brief History of Speech....Pages 23-40
Speech Recognition and Speaker Identification....Pages 41-65
Speech Dialogue Systems and Natural Language Processing....Pages 67-106
Speech Compression....Pages 107-127
Speech Synthesis....Pages 129-134
Speech Production....Pages 135-147
The Speech Signal....Pages 149-152
Hearing....Pages 153-177
Binaural Hearing — Listening with Both Ears....Pages 179-206
Basic Signal Concepts....Pages 207-245
Acoustic Theory and Modeling of the Vocal Tract....Pages 247-268
Direct Relations Between Cepstrum and Predictor Coefficients....Pages 269-277
Back Matter....Pages 279-381

✦ Subjects

Physics, general;Acoustics;User Interfaces and Human Computer Interaction;Language Translation and Linguistics;Communications Engineering, Networks