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Summary
Summary
Continued progress in Speech Technology in the face of ever-increasing demands on the performance levels of applications is a challenge to the whole speech and language science community. Robust recognition and understanding of spontaneous speech in varied environments, good comprehensibility and naturalness of expressive speech synthesis are goals that cannot be achieved without a change of paradigm. This book argues for interdisciplinary communication and cooperation in problem-solving in general, and discusses the interaction between speech and language engineering and phonetics in particular. With a number of reports on innovative speech technology research as well as more theoretical discussions, it addresses the practical, scientific and sometimes the philosophical problems that stand in the way of cross-disciplinary collaboration and illuminates some of the many possible ways forward.
Audience: Researchers and professionals in speech technology and computational linguists.
Table of Contents
ForewordWilliam J. Barry and Wim A. van Dommelen and Jaques Koreman |
What is Phonetic KnowledgeWilliam A. Ainsworth |
Can Phonetic Knowledge be Used to Improve the Performance of Speech Recognisers and Synthesisers?Anton Batliner and Bernd Möbius |
Prosodic Models, Automatic Speech Understanding, and Speech Synthesis: Towards the Common Ground?Julie Carson-Berndsen and Michael Walsh |
Phonetic Time MapsHeidi Christensen and Børge Lindberg and Ove Andersen |
Introducing Phonetically Motivated, Heterogeneous Information into Automatic Speech RecognitionGuillaume Gravier and Francois Yvon and Bruno Jacob and FrÃ(c)dÃ(c)ric Bimbot |
Introducing Contextual Transcription Rules in Large Vocabulary Speech RecognitionSteven Greenberg |
From Here to UtilityMoisÃ(c)s Pastor and Francisco Casacuberta |
Pronunciation ModelingJan P.H. van Santen |
Phonetic Knowledge in Text-to-Speech SynthesisHelmer Strik |
Is Phonetic Knowledge of Any Use for Speech Technology? |