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Spoken Language Processing
ISBN: 9781848210318
Publication Date: December 2008 Hardback 504 pp.
195.00 USD
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Description
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 modeling, computational linguistics and human factor studies.
Contents
1. Speech analysis, Christophe d'Alessandro.
2. Principles of speech coding, Gang Feng and Laurent Girin.
3. Speech synthesis, Olivier Boëffard and Christophe d'Alessandro.
4. Facial animation for visual speech, Thierry Guiard-Marigny.
5. Computational auditory scene analysis, Alain de Cheveigné.
6. Principles of speech recognition, Renato de Mori and Brigitte Bigi.
7. Speech recognition systems, Jean-Luc Gauvain and Lori Lamel.
8. Language identification, Martine Adda-Decker.
9. Automatic speaker recognition, Frédéric Bimbot.
10. Robust recognition methods, Jean-Paul Haton.
11. Multimodal speech: two or three senses are better than one, Jean-Luc Schwartz, Pierre Escudier and Pascal Teissier.
12. Speech and human-computer communication, Françoise Néel and Wolfgang Minker.
13. Voice services in the telecom sector, Laurent Courtois, Patrick Brisard and Christian Gagnoulet.
About the Authors
Joseph Mariani is a CNRS senior Researcher. He has been Director of LIMSI-CNRS(1989-2000) and Director of the Information and Communication Technologies department at the French Ministry of Research (2001-2006). He is now Director of the International Institute for Multilingual and Multimedia Information (IMMI).
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