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It is an established tradition that researchers from many countries
get together on the average every three years for a two week
Advanced Studies Institute on Automatic Speech Recognition and
Synthesis. According to ASI policies the Institute is financed by
NATO. This book contains the texts of lectures and papers
contributed by the attendees of the ASI which was held July 2 - 14,
1984, at Bonas, Gers, France. Focussed on New Systems and
Architectures for Automatic Speech Recognition and Synthesis, this
book is divided into 4 parts: (a) Review of ba8ic algorithm8 (b)
SY8tem architecture and VLSI for automatic Speech (c) Software
8Y8tem8 for automatic 8peech recognition, (d) Speech 8ynthe8i8 and
phonetic8. Due to the international nature of the Institute, the
readers will find in this book different styles, different points
of view and applications to different languages. This reflects also
some characteristics of the International Association for Pattern
Recognition ( APR) whose technical committee on Speech Recognition
has organized this ASI. Proposed contributions have been reviewed
by an Editorial Committee composed of W. Ainsworth (Kent), R.
Bisiani (Pittsburgh), J. P. Haton (Nancy), W. Hess (Munich), J. L.
Houle (Montreal), P. Laface (Turin), R. Moore (Malvern), H. Niemann
(Erlangen) and J. Ohala (Berkeley). Typesetting of the book was
performed using SYMSET facilities developed entirely by the
Department of Computer Science at Concordia University. Special
thanks are due to L. Lam, H. Monkiewicz and L. Thiel.
The book collects the contributions to the NATO Advanced Study
Institute on "Speech Recognition and Understanding: Recent
Advances, Trends and Applications", held in Cetraro, Italy, during
the first two weeks of July 1990. This Institute focused on three
topics that are considered of particular interest and rich of
i'p.novation by researchers in the fields of speech recognition and
understanding: Advances in Hidden Markov modeling, connectionist
approaches to speech and language modeling, and linguistic
processing including language and dialogue modeling. The purpose of
any ASI is that of encouraging scientific communications between
researchers of NATO countries through advanced tutorials and
presentations: excellent tutorials were offered by invited speakers
that present in this book 15 papers which sum marize or detail the
topics covered in their lectures. The lectures were complemented by
discussions, panel sections and by the presentation of related
works carried on by some of the attending researchers: these
presentations have been collected in 42 short contributions to the
Proceedings. This volume, that the reader can find useful for an
overview, although incomplete, of the state of the art in speech
understanding, is divided into 6 Parts.
It is with great pleasure that I present this third volume of the
series "Advanced Applications in Pattern Recognition." It
represents the summary of many man- (and woman-) years of effort in
the field of speech recognition by tne author's former team at the
University of Turin. It combines the best results in fuzzy-set
theory and artificial intelligence to point the way to definitive
solutions to the speech-recognition problem. It is my hope that it
will become a classic work in this field. I take this opportunity
to extend my thanks and appreciation to Sy Marchand, Plenum's
Senior Editor responsible for overseeing this series, and to Susan
Lee and Jo Winton, who had the monumental task of preparing the
camera-ready master sheets for publication. Morton Nadler General
Editor vii PREFACE Si parva licet componere magnis Virgil,
Georgics, 4,176 (37-30 B.C.) The work reported in this book results
from years of research oriented toward the goal of making an
experimental model capable of understanding spoken sentences of a
natural language. This is, of course, a modest attempt compared to
the complexity of the functions performed by the human brain. A
method is introduced for conce1v1ng modules performing perceptual
tasks and for combining them in a speech understanding system.
A comprehensive reference on the exciting growth area of spoken
dialogs with computers, this text describes the components of a
computer-based spoken dialog system, and will prove invaluable to
researchers in industry and academia working on speech
communication systems and for applications developers. This
state-of-the-art book reviews the complete chain from microphone to
speech synthesis. It provides methods, models, and algorithms for
building a working system. Renato De Mori is coauthor of each
chapter ensuring coherence and homogeneity throughout the
text.
Spoken Dialogs with Computers covers in detail: transducers and
microphone arrays, speech analysis and transformation, acoustic
modeling and model training, language modeling, and knowledge
integration for automatic speech recognition (ASR). The book also
presents generation of word hypotheses, speaker adaptation,
robustness and telephone application, use of syntactic and semantic
knowledge, speech interpretation and dialog strategies, speech
generation, and software system architectures for practical
implementation.
Key Features
* All the necessary methods and models are provided for building a
working systems and there is clear algorithmic presentation of the
important components
* A section on automatic interpretation allows the building of a
database query system in spoken language
* The book will be invaluable to researchers in industry and
academia working on speech communication systems and for
application developers in industry
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