Speech Technology for Telecommunications
The book will appeal to both professional engineers and students and researchers in the subject. From an introduction to the basic terminology and underlying techniques, the book moves on to demonstrate the core enabling technologies, with a broad and balanced perspective given for each topic. Subsequent chapters focus on the applications and give an insight into the process of integrating a range of speech technologies for commercial solutions to customer needs. The book concludes with a...
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The book will appeal to both professional engineers and students and researchers in the subject. From an introduction to the basic terminology and underlying techniques, the book moves on to demonstrate the core enabling technologies, with a broad and balanced perspective given for each topic. Subsequent chapters focus on the applications and give an insight into the process of integrating a range of speech technologies for commercial solutions to customer needs. The book concludes with a speculative review of options for the future.
ContributorsPrefaceIntroduction1Speech technology for telecommunications12Introduction to human speech production, human hearing and speech analysis303Low rate speech coding for telecommunications734Speech transmission over digital mobile radio channels1045The Laureate text-to-speech system - architecture and applications1276Overview of current text-to-speech techniques: Part I - text and linguistic analysis1497Overview of current text-to-speech techniques: Part II - prosody and speech generation1818Beyond intelligibility - the performance of text-to-speech synthesizers2119The listening telephone - automating speech recognition over the PSTN23610Advances in telephony-based speech recognition26811Speech recognition - making it work for real32312Are speech recognizers still 98% accurate, or has the time come to repeal 'Hyde's Law'?35213Speech enhancement37614Assessing human perception40615Interactive speech systems for telecommunications applications42416Issues in large-vocabulary interactive speech systems46517Spoken language systems - beyond prompt and response48718Whither speech? - the future of telephony523Index549
