Computer Speech Technology

Author : Robert Rodman
Publisher : Artech House Publishers
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Computers
ISBN : UOM:39015046505080

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Computer Speech Technology by Robert Rodman Pdf

This new book is the first to provide a truly understandable, non-technical overview of all the major areas in the computer processing of human speech -- speech recognition, speech synthesis, speaker recognition, language identification, lip synchronization, and co-channel separation. It takes a unique, nonmathematical approach in exploring the nature of human language and its impact on the science and methodologies of computer voice technology. In one, easy-to-read source, you gain a deeper understanding of the fundamentals, uses, and applications of the technology itself and of the strengths and weaknesses of various systems. A time-saving glossary of technical terms is included.

Author : Mullennix, John,Stern, Steven
Publisher : IGI Global
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2010-01-31
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9781615207268

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Computer Synthesized Speech Technologies: Tools for Aiding Impairment by Mullennix, John,Stern, Steven Pdf

"This book provides practitioners and researchers with information that will allow them to better assist the speech disabled who wish to utilize computer synthesized speech (CSS) technology"--Provided by publisher.

Author : Fang Chen,Kristiina Jokinen
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 349 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2010-07-01
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9780387738192

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Speech Technology by Fang Chen,Kristiina Jokinen Pdf

This book gives an overview of the research and application of speech technologies in different areas. One of the special characteristics of the book is that the authors take a broad view of the multiple research areas and take the multidisciplinary approach to the topics. One of the goals in this book is to emphasize the application. User experience, human factors and usability issues are the focus in this book.

Author : Chris Baber,Jan Noyes
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2002-11-01
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9781482272512

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Interactive Speech Technology by Chris Baber,Jan Noyes Pdf

This book deals with two important technologies in human-computer interaction: computer generation of synthetic speech and computer recognition of human speech. It addresses the problems in generating speech with varying precision of articulation and how to convey moods and attitudes.

Author : Manfred R. Schroeder
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2013-06-29
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783662038611

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Computer Speech by Manfred R. Schroeder Pdf

New material treats such contemporary subjects as automatic speech recognition and speaker verification for banking by computer and privileged (medical, military, diplomatic) information and control access. The book also focuses on speech and audio compression for mobile communication and the Internet. The importance of subjective quality criteria is stressed. The book also contains introductions to human monaural and binaural hearing, and the basic concepts of signal analysis. Beyond speech processing, this revised and extended new edition of Computer Speech gives an overview of natural language technology and presents the nuts and bolts of state-of-the-art speech dialogue systems.

Author : Roberto Pieraccini
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 355 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9780262016858

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The Voice in the Machine by Roberto Pieraccini Pdf

An examination of more than sixty years of successes and failures in developing technologies that allow computers to understand human spoken language. Stanley Kubrick's 1968 film 2001: A Space Odyssey famously featured HAL, a computer with the ability to hold lengthy conversations with his fellow space travelers. More than forty years later, we have advanced computer technology that Kubrick never imagined, but we do not have computers that talk and understand speech as HAL did. Is it a failure of our technology that we have not gotten much further than an automated voice that tells us to "say or press 1"? Or is there something fundamental in human language and speech that we do not yet understand deeply enough to be able to replicate in a computer? In The Voice in the Machine, Roberto Pieraccini examines six decades of work in science and technology to develop computers that can interact with humans using speech and the industry that has arisen around the quest for these technologies. He shows that although the computers today that understand speech may not have HAL's capacity for conversation, they have capabilities that make them usable in many applications today and are on a fast track of improvement and innovation. Pieraccini describes the evolution of speech recognition and speech understanding processes from waveform methods to artificial intelligence approaches to statistical learning and modeling of human speech based on a rigorous mathematical model--specifically, Hidden Markov Models (HMM). He details the development of dialog systems, the ability to produce speech, and the process of bringing talking machines to the market. Finally, he asks a question that only the future can answer: will we end up with HAL-like computers or something completely unexpected?

Author : Jack Hollingum,Graham Cassford
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 161 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2013-03-09
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9783662130124

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Speech Technology at Work by Jack Hollingum,Graham Cassford Pdf

Speech technology - the use of speech as a means of sending information to, and receiving information from computer systems has been in use as a research tool for many years. Only recently has it begun to move out of the laboratory and into commercially worthwhile applications, first with compressed and synthesised spoken messages, then with computer recognition of spoken messages, and today with diverse applications involving both recognition and reproduction of human speech. We have written this book because we believe the technology has now advanced to the point where many more applications of voice recognition and response are both feasible and economically attractive. Computers that can understand everyday speech are still a distant prospect, but provided the limitations of present day equipment are clearly understood there is much that can be achieved with it. Our aim is to show, in non-technical language, what is now possible with the help of speech technology. The text includes many examples of current applications in industry, commerce and other fields, and we have selected five current industrial applications combining speech recognition and response for more detailed attention. Industrial cases have been chosen both because we see industry as an important growth area for speech applications in the next few years, and because it presents some of the greatest difficulties in speech recognition - if you can make it work in industry, then you can make it work almost anywhere.

Author : Ann K. Syrdal,Raymond W. Bennett,Steven L. Greenspan
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 654 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1994-10-18
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 0849394562

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Applied Speech Technology by Ann K. Syrdal,Raymond W. Bennett,Steven L. Greenspan Pdf

Written by the world's top experts in the field, this multidisciplinary book explores all phases of speech technology. Topics covered include: Conversion of computerized (keyboarded) text into synthesized speech, aimed at developing "talking computers" Development of automatic speech recognition, allowing electronic devices to process verbal commands Speech training and the use of synthesized speech for the hearing- and speech-impaired In-depth discussions of specific speech technologies are included, as well as a treatment of the issues and challenges of human-computer interfaces. Oriented toward state-of-the-art applications, the book emphasizes the practical utilization of emerging technologies and includes numerous case studies.

Author : Manfred R. Schroeder
Publisher : Springer
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2014-03-12
Category : Science
ISBN : 3662038625

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Computer Speech by Manfred R. Schroeder Pdf

New material treats such contemporary subjects as automatic speech recognition and speaker verification for banking by computer and privileged (medical, military, diplomatic) information and control access. The book also focuses on speech and audio compression for mobile communication and the Internet. The importance of subjective quality criteria is stressed. The book also contains introductions to human monaural and binaural hearing, and the basic concepts of signal analysis. Beyond speech processing, this revised and extended new edition of Computer Speech gives an overview of natural language technology and presents the nuts and bolts of state-of-the-art speech dialogue systems.

Author : Melissa Holland,F. Pete Fisher
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2008-02-08
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9781135901486

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The Path of Speech Technologies in Computer Assisted Language Learning by Melissa Holland,F. Pete Fisher Pdf

This collection examines the promise and limitations for computer-assisted language learning of emerging speech technologies: speech recognition, text-to-speech synthesis, and acoustic visualization. Using pioneering research from contributors based in the US and Europe, this volume illustrates the uses of each technology for learning languages, the problems entailed in their use, and the solutions evolving in both technology and instructional design. To illuminate where these technologies stand on the path from research toward practice, the book chapters are organized to reflect five stages in the maturation of learning technologies: basic research, analysis of learners’ needs, adaptation of technologies to meet needs, development of prototypes to incorporate adapted technologies, and evaluation of prototypes. The volume demonstrates the progress in employing each class of speech technology while pointing up the effort that remains for effective, reliable application to language learning.

Author : Melissa Holland,F. Pete Fisher
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2008-02-08
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781135901479

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The Path of Speech Technologies in Computer Assisted Language Learning by Melissa Holland,F. Pete Fisher Pdf

This collection examines the promise and limitations for computer-assisted language learning of emerging speech technologies: speech recognition, text-to-speech synthesis, and acoustic visualization. Using pioneering research from contributors based in the US and Europe, this volume illustrates the uses of each technology for learning languages, the problems entailed in their use, and the solutions evolving in both technology and instructional design. To illuminate where these technologies stand on the path from research toward practice, the book chapters are organized to reflect five stages in the maturation of learning technologies: basic research, analysis of learners’ needs, adaptation of technologies to meet needs, development of prototypes to incorporate adapted technologies, and evaluation of prototypes. The volume demonstrates the progress in employing each class of speech technology while pointing up the effort that remains for effective, reliable application to language learning.

Author : M. R. Schroeder
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Automatic speech recognition
ISBN : OCLC:754873202

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Computer Speech by M. R. Schroeder Pdf

Author : Alexey Karpov,Rodmonga Potapova
Publisher : Springer
Page : 689 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2020-10-05
Category : Computers
ISBN : 3030602753

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Speech and Computer by Alexey Karpov,Rodmonga Potapova Pdf

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Speech and Computer, SPECOM 2020, held in St. Petersburg, Russia, in October 2020. The 65 papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 160 submissions. The papers present current research in the area of computer speech processing including speech science, speech technology, natural language processing, human-computer interaction, language identification, multimedia processing, human-machine interaction, deep learning for audio processing, computational paralinguistics, affective computing, speech and language resources, speech translation systems, text mining and sentiment analysis, voice assistants, etc. Due to the Corona pandemic SPECOM 2020 was held as a virtual event.

Author : David B. Pisoni
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Speech perception
ISBN : IND:39000000566450

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Speech Technology, the Evolution of Computers that Speak-- and Listen by David B. Pisoni Pdf

Author : for the National Academy of Sciences
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 562 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1994-02-01
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 0309049881

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Voice Communication Between Humans and Machines by for the National Academy of Sciences Pdf

Science fiction has long been populated with conversational computers and robots. Now, speech synthesis and recognition have matured to where a wide range of real-world applicationsâ€"from serving people with disabilities to boosting the nation's competitivenessâ€"are within our grasp. Voice Communication Between Humans and Machines takes the first interdisciplinary look at what we know about voice processing, where our technologies stand, and what the future may hold for this fascinating field. The volume integrates theoretical, technical, and practical views from world-class experts at leading research centers around the world, reporting on the scientific bases behind human-machine voice communication, the state of the art in computerization, and progress in user friendliness. It offers an up-to-date treatment of technological progress in key areas: speech synthesis, speech recognition, and natural language understanding. The book also explores the emergence of the voice processing industry and specific opportunities in telecommunications and other businesses, in military and government operations, and in assistance for the disabled. It outlines, as well, practical issues and research questions that must be resolved if machines are to become fellow problem-solvers along with humans. Voice Communication Between Humans and Machines provides a comprehensive understanding of the field of voice processing for engineers, researchers, and business executives, as well as speech and hearing specialists, advocates for people with disabilities, faculty and students, and interested individuals.