Computer Speech

Manfred R. Schroeder

ISBN 10: 3540212671 / ISBN 13: 9783540212676

Published by Springer Berlin Heidelberg Jun 2004, 2004

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This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -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. 416 pp. Englisch.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Computer Speech
• Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg Jun 2004
• Publication Date: 2004
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3540212671
• ISBN 13: 9783540212676
• Binding: Buch
• Edition: 2nd Edition
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 241W x 160H x 27D millimeters 241 millimeters width by 160 millimeters height by 27 millimeters depth
• Weight: 787 grams

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Synopsis

The first edition having been sold out, gives me a welcome opportunity to augment this volume by some recent applications of speech research. A new chapter, by Holger Quast, treats speech dialogue systems and natural lan­ guage processing. Dictation programs for word processors, voice dialing for mobile phones, and dialogue systems for air travel reservations, automated banking, and translation over the telephone are at the forefront of human-machine inter­ faces. Spoken language dialogue systems are also invaluable for the physically handicapped. For researchers new to the field, the new chapter (pp. 67-106) provides an overview of fundamental linguistic concepts from phonetics, morphology, syntax, semantics and pragmatics, gramm ars and knowedge representation. Symbolic methodology, such as Norman Chomsky's traditional hierarchy of formal languages is layed out as are statistical approaches to analyze text. Proven tools of language processing are covered in detail, including finite­ state automata, Zipf's law, trees annd parsers. The second part of the new chapter introduces the building blocks of state-of-the-art dialogue systems.