Talker Variability in Speech Processing

xii, 237 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. Contents: Complex representations used in speech processing : overview of the book / Keith Johnson and John W Mullennix Some thoughts on "normalization" in speech perception / David B. Pisoni Words and voices : perception and production in an episodic lexicon / Stephen D. Goldinger On the nature of perceptual adjustments to voice / John W. Mullennix Listening to voices : theory and practice in voice perception research / Jody Kreiman Talker normalization : phonetic constancy as a cognitive process / Howard Nusbaum and James Magnuson Normalization of vowels by breath sounds / D.H. Whalen and Sonya M. Sheffert Speech perception without speaker normalization : an exemplar model / Keith Johnson Speaker modeling for speaker adaptation in automatic speech recognition / Nikko Ström Overcoming speaker variability in automatic speech recognition : the speaker adaptation approach / Yunxin Zhao Vocal tract normalization for articulatory recovery and adaptation / Richard S. McGowan.…