Spoken Language Generation and Understanding: Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Study Institute held at Bonas, France, June 26 – July 7, 1979 (Nato Science Series C:, 59)

Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Study Institute, Bonas, France, June 26-July 7, 1979 Front Matter....Pages i-xviii Front Matter....Pages 1-1 Spoken Language Generation and Understanding by Machine: A Problems and Applications Oriented Overview....Pages 3-38 Speech Understanding as a Psychological Process....Pages 39-67 What the Engineers would Like to Know from the Psychologists....Pages 69-75 Perceptual Studies of Speech Rhythm: Isochrony and Intonation....Pages 77-85 Estimation of Articulatory Motion from Speech Waves and its Application for Automatic Recognition....Pages 87-99 Front Matter....Pages 101-101 Speech Signal Processing and Feature Extraction....Pages 103-128 Pattern Recognition Techniques for Speech Recognition....Pages 129-145 Automatic Mapping of Acoustic Features into Phonemic Labels....Pages 147-189 Automatic Phoneme Recognition in Continuous Speech: A Syntactic Approach....Pages 191-220 Syntactic Approach to Pattern Recognition....Pages 221-251 Phoneme Recognition Using a Cochlear Model....Pages 253-262 Pitch Determination of Speech Signals — A Survey....Pages 263-278 Speech Analysis Using Syntactic Methods and a Pitch Synchronous Formant Detector on the Direct Signal....Pages 279-292 Variability of Vowel Formant Frequency in Different Speech Styles....Pages 293-308 Front Matter....Pages 309-309 The Representation and Use of a Lexicon in Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding....Pages 311-335 Control of Syntax and Semantics in Continuous Speech Understanding....Pages 337-364 A Classification Method Based on Fuzzy Naming Relations Over Finite Languages....Pages 365-379 Front Matter....Pages 381-381 Speech Synthesis from Text....Pages 383-396 An Over-View of Speech Synthesis....Pages 397-412 Speech Synthesis for an Unlimited Vocabulary, a Powerful Tool for Inquiry and Information Services....Pages 413-428 Front Matter....Pages 381-381 Time — Domain Formant — Wave — Function Synthesis....Pages 429-441 A Programmable, Digital Speech Synthesiser....Pages 443-454 An Intelligent Speech Prosthesis with a Lexical Memory....Pages 455-467 Front Matter....Pages 469-469 Industrial Applications of Speech Recognition....Pages 471-474 Some Points Concerning Speech Communication with Computers....Pages 475-484 Secure Speech Communication Over a CCITT-Speech Channel....Pages 485-495 Speech Compression/Recognition with Robust Features....Pages 497-504 A Real-Time System for Speech Recognition....Pages 505-515 Speech Training of Deaf Children Using the Sirene System: First Results and Conclusions....Pages 517-524 The KEAL Speech Understanding System....Pages 525-543 The Locust System....Pages 545-551 The MYRTILLE II Speech Understanding System....Pages 553-569 Back Matter....Pages 571-582 HOW TO READ THE BOOK: SOME COMMENTS This book is the lasting result of the first NATO Advanced Study Institute on Speech, held at the Centre Culturel du Chateau de Bonas, from June 26 to July 7, 1979. The intent of a NATO ASI is primarily to provide high level tutorial coverage of a field in WhlCh research is active; undoubtedly speech generation and understanding is one at the present time. Thus 12 surveys are offered by some of the best specia lists in the field. As a consequence the book may be consldered as a reference book on speech. The surveys are marked by a * in the Table of Contents. However, half of the meeting was devoted to dlSCuSSlons and presentations of research. A reviewing Committee decided to ask a number of participants to submit a contribution which would complete the tutorials or would present original work. A beginner in the subject should start by readlng the reVlews of Hill, Wolf, Bridle, Haton, Woods, Al~en, Lienard; preferably in the above order. He would then be familiar with the terms, the problems and the techniques of speech understanding (analysis) and generation (synthesis)