Talker Variability in Speech Processing

Keith Johnson; John W. Mullennix

ISBN 10: 0123865603 / ISBN 13: 9780123865601

Published by Academic Press, 1997

About this Item

237pp. Ex-university library with associated markings. Pictorial hard cover, no jacket. No annotations or highlighting to text. Cover chipped.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Talker Variability in Speech Processing
• Publisher: Academic Press
• Publication Date: 1997
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0123865603
• ISBN 13: 9780123865601
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket

About this title

Synopsis

Unique in its approach, Talker Variability in Speech Processing embraces the differences in speech patterns without treating them as unwanted variables. The editors take on the difficult task of converting the mapping of speech patterns into mental representations. They cover theories of perception and cognition, issues in clinical speech pathology, and the practical concerns of speech technology. A radical departure from traditional approaches to speech processing, this text will strike a major chord for those surrounded by the dissonance of speech perception and language processing issues.

Key Features
* Explores talker variability, one of the central problems in automatic computer speech recognition
* Provides broad views of the problem and various attempts to solve it
* Essential for researchers working on speech perception, the higher levels of language processing, and automatic speech recognition
* Contains more than 40 graphs and illustrations

About the Author

Keith Johnson (Ph.D., The Ohio State University) has taught at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, UCLA, Indiana University, and the University of Illinois. He has published papers in the Journal of the Acoustic Society of America, the Journal of Phonetics, and Phonetica, among others. He teaches in the Linguistics Department at The Ohio State University.

John Mullennix (Ph.D., SUNY Buffalo) has published research on speech processing and word recognition in, among other journals, Contemporary Psychology, Memory and Cognition, and the Journal of the Acoustic Society of America. He teaches in the Psychology Department at Wayne State University, and his home page is http://www.science/wayne/edu/~jmulleni.