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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.

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Author:   Manfred R. Schroeder ,  H. Quast ,  H.W. Strube
Publisher:   Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG
Imprint:   Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. K
Edition:   Softcover reprint of the original 2nd ed. 2004
Volume:   35
Dimensions:   Width: 15.50cm , Height: 2.10cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   0.635kg
ISBN:  

9783642059568

ISBN 10:   3642059562
Pages:   379
Publication Date:   01 December 2010
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

1. Introduction.- 2. A Brief History of Speech.- 3. Speech Recognition and Speaker Identification.- 4. Speech Dialogue Systems and Natural Language Processing.- 5. Speech Compression.- 6. Speech Synthesis.- 7. Speech Production.- 8. The Speech Signal.- 9. Hearing.- 10. Binaural Hearing — Listening with Both Ears.- 11. Basic Signal Concepts.- A. Acoustic Theory and Modeling of the Vocal Tract.- B. Direct Relations Between Cepstrum and Predictor Coefficients.- References.- General Reading.- Selected Journals.- A Sampling of Societies and Major Meetings.- Glossary of Speech and Computer Terms.- Name Index.- The Author.

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