Title: The integration of phonetic knowledge in speech technology
Description: Continued progress in Speech Technology in the face of ever-increasing demands on the performance levels of applications is a challenge to the whole speech and language science community. Robust recognition and understanding of spontaneous speech in varied environments, good comprehensibility and naturalness of expressive speech synthesis are goals that cannot be achieved without a change of paradigm. This book argues for interdisciplinary communication and cooperation in problem-solving in general, and discusses the interaction between speech and language engineering and phonetics in particular. With a number of reports on innovative speech technology research as well as more theoretical discussions, it addresses the practical, scientific and sometimes the philosophical problems that stand in the way of cross-disciplinary collaboration and illuminates some of the many possible ways forward. Audience: Researchers and professionals in speech technology and computational linguists.
Subjects: Speech processing systems, Phonetics, Traitement automatique de la parole, Phonétique, COMPUTERS, Optical Data Processing, Sciences sociales, Sciences humaines, Taaltechniek, Fonetiek, English language, study and teaching, Linguistics, Translators (Computer programs), Applied linguistics, Computational linguistics, Language Translation and Linguistics