Speech Processing, Recognition and Artificial Neural Networks : Proceedings of the 3rd International Summer School on Neural Nets "Eduardo R. Caianiello"

Speech Processing, Recognition and Artificial Neural Networks contains papers from leading researchers and selected students, discussing the experiments, theories and perspectives of acoustic phonetics as well as the latest techniques in the field of spe ech science and technology. Topics covered in this book include; Fundamentals of Speech Analysis and Perceptron; Speech Processing; Stochastic Models for Speech; Auditory and Neural Network Models for Speech; Task-Oriented Applications of Automatic Speech Recognition and Synthesis. Front Matter....Pages i-xii Front Matter....Pages 1-1 Articulatory Constraints on Distinctive Features....Pages 3-20 “Herr Müller vivra’ a Taranto con i suoi colleghi austriaci” Investigations on a Fragment of Italian Phonology....Pages 21-53 Acoustic analysis and perception of classes of sounds (vowels and consonants)....Pages 54-84 Speech and Voice Perception: Beyond Pattern Recognition....Pages 85-112 Front Matter....Pages 113-113 Analysis in Automatic Recognition of Speech....Pages 115-137 Speech Production and Perception Models and their Applications to Synthesis, Recognition, and Coding....Pages 138-161 Front Matter....Pages 163-163 Statistical Methods for Automatic Speech Recognition....Pages 165-189 Statistical Modelling: From Speech Recognition to Text Translation....Pages 190-215 Continuous Speech Recognition with Neural Networks: An Application to Railway Timetables Enquires....Pages 216-220 Multi-Level Multi-Decision Model for Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding....Pages 221-224 Generative Models for Automatic Speech Recognition, Understanding and Synthesis....Pages 225-228 Speech Modelling Virtual Laboratory....Pages 229-232 Front Matter....Pages 233-233 Auditory Modeling and Neural Networks....Pages 235-258 Neural networks for automatic speech recognition: a review....Pages 259-280 Preprocessing and Classification of English Stops Nasals and Fricatives....Pages 281-288 Self-Organizing Feature Maps for Arabic Phonemes....Pages 289-293 Front Matter....Pages 295-295 Towards Fully Automatic Speech Processing Techniques for Interactive Voice Servers....Pages 297-326 Multi-modal Speech Synthesis with Applications....Pages 327-346 Back Matter....Pages 347-347