The Integration of Phonetic Knowledge in Speech Technology

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Barry, William J. (Editor), Dommelen, Wim A. van (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2005.
• Series: Text, Speech and Language Technology, 25
• Subjects: Linguistics.; Computational linguistics.; Applied linguistics.; Computational Linguistics.; Language Translation and Linguistics.; Applied Linguistics.

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 na...

Table of Contents:

• Phonetic Knowledge in Speech Technology
• Can Phonetic Knowledge be Used to Improve the Performance of Speech Recognisers and Synthesisers?
• Prosodic Models, Automatic Speech Understanding, and Speech Synthesis: Towards the Common Ground?
• Phonetic Time Maps
• Introducing Phonetically Motivated, Heterogeneous Information into Automatic Speech Recognition
• Introducing Contextual Transcription Rules in Large Vocabulary Speech Recognition
• From Here to Utility
• Pronunciation Modeling
• Phonetic Knowledge in Text-to-Speech Synthesis
• Is Phonetic Knowledge of Any Use for Speech Technology?.