Automatic Speech Analysis and Recognition : Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Study Institute Held at Bonas, France, June 29–July 10, 1981

This book is the result of the second NATO Advanced Study Institute on speech processing held at the Chateau de Bonas, France, from June 29th to July 10th, 1981. This Institute provided a high-level coverage of the fields of speech transmission, recognition and understanding, which constitute important areas where research activity has re­ cently been associated with actual industrial developments. This book will therefore include both fundamental and applied topics. Ten survey papers by some of the best specialists in the field are included. They give an up-to-date presentation of several important problems in automatic speech processing. As a consequence the book can be considered as a reference manual on some important areas of automatic speech processing. The surveys are indicated by 'a \* in the table of contents. This book also contains research papers corresponding to original works, which were presented during the panel sessions of the Institute. For the sake of clarity the book has been divided into five sections : 1. Speech Analysis and Transmission: An emphasis has been laid on the techniques of linear prediction (LPC), and the problems involved in the transmission of speech at various bit rates are addressed in details. 2. Acoustics and Phonetics : One'of the major bottleneck in the development of speech recogni­ tion systems remains the transcription of the continuous speech wave into some discrete strings or lattices of phonetic symbols. Two survey papers discuss this problem from different points of view and several practical systems are also described. Front Matter....Pages i-xii Linear Prediction of Speech and its Application to Speech Processing....Pages 1-19 Medium and Low Bit Rate Speech Transmission....Pages 21-48 Algorithms and Devices for Pitch Determination of Speech Signals....Pages 49-67 Acoustic-Phonetic Decoding and Adaptation in Continuous Speech Recognition....Pages 69-99 Acoustic-Phonetic Knowledge Representation: Implications from Spectrogram Reading Experiments....Pages 101-120 Phonemic Recognition by Linear Prediction: Experiences at ENST....Pages 121-137 Acoustic-Phonetic Analysis Based on an Articulatory Model....Pages 139-151 The Efficiency of Demisyllable Segmentation in the Recognition of Spoken Words....Pages 153-163 Interaction Between Auditory, Syllabic and Lexical Knowledge in a Speech Understanding System....Pages 165-178 Speaker Independent Connected Word Recognition....Pages 179-190 An Algorithm for Connected Word Recognition....Pages 191-204 Seraphine: a connected word recognition system....Pages 205-215 Implementation of Models for Speech Recognition with Very Large Scale Integrated Circuit Technology....Pages 217-229 Self-Organized Continuous Speech Recognition....Pages 231-238 The Erlangen Speech Understanding Project....Pages 239-251 Semantic and Pragmatic Processing in Continuous Speech Understanding....Pages 253-268 The Arial II Speech Recognition System....Pages 269-275 Speaker Recognition: A Survey....Pages 277-308 Complexity of Algorithms and Pattern Recognition....Pages 309-329 Selecting, Designing, and Using Practical Speech Recognizers....Pages 331-368 Back Matter....Pages 369-371