Spoken Language Processing

Speech processing addresses various scientific and technological areas. It includes speech analysis and variable rate coding, in order to store or transmit speech. It also covers speech synthesis, especially from text, speech recognition, including speaker and language identification, and spoken language understanding. This book covers the following topics: how to realize speech production and perception systems, how to synthesize and understand speech using state-of-the-art methods in signal processing, pattern recognition, stochastic modelling computational linguistics and human factor studies.Content: Chapter 1 Speech Analysis (pages 1–53): Christophe D'AlessandroChapter 2 Principles of Speech Coding (pages 55–98): Gang Feng and Laurent GirinChapter 3 Speech Synthesis (pages 99–167): Olivier Boeuffard and Christophe D'AlessandroChapter 4 Facial Animation for Visual Speech (pages 169–187): Thierry Guiard?MarignyChapter 5 Computational Auditory Scene Analysis (pages 189–211): Alain De CheveigneChapter 6 Principles of Speech Recognition (pages 213–238): Renato De Mori and Brigitte BigiChapter 7 Speech Recognition Systems (pages 239–278): Jean?Luc Gauvain and Lori LamelChapter 8 Language Identification (pages 279–320): Martine Adda?DeckerChapter 9 Automatic Speaker Recognition (pages 321–354): Frederic BimbotChapter 10 Robust Recognition Methods (pages 355–375): Jean?Paul HatonChapter 11 Multimodal Speech: Two or Three Senses are Better than One (pages 377–415): Jean?Luc Schwartz, Pierre Escudier and Pascal TeissierChapter 12 Speech and Human?Computer Communication (pages 417–454): Wolfgang Minker and Francoise NeelChapter 13 Voice Services in the Telecom Sector (pages 455–466): Laurent Courtois, Patrick Brisard and Christian Gagnoulet