Spoken Language Understanding
Spoken Language Understanding

Author: Gokhan Tur

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2011-05-03

Total Pages: 443

ISBN-13: 1119993946

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Spoken language understanding (SLU) is an emerging field in between speech and language processing, investigating human/ machine and human/ human communication by leveraging technologies from signal processing, pattern recognition, machine learning and artificial intelligence. SLU systems are designed to extract the meaning from speech utterances and its applications are vast, from voice search in mobile devices to meeting summarization, attracting interest from both commercial and academic sectors. Both human/machine and human/human communications can benefit from the application of SLU, using differing tasks and approaches to better understand and utilize such communications. This book covers the state-of-the-art approaches for the most popular SLU tasks with chapters written by well-known researchers in the respective fields. Key features include: Presents a fully integrated view of the two distinct disciplines of speech processing and language processing for SLU tasks. Defines what is possible today for SLU as an enabling technology for enterprise (e.g., customer care centers or company meetings), and consumer (e.g., entertainment, mobile, car, robot, or smart environments) applications and outlines the key research areas. Provides a unique source of distilled information on methods for computer modeling of semantic information in human/machine and human/human conversations. This book can be successfully used for graduate courses in electronics engineering, computer science or computational linguistics. Moreover, technologists interested in processing spoken communications will find it a useful source of collated information of the topic drawn from the two distinct disciplines of speech processing and language processing under the new area of SLU.

Spoken Language Processing
Spoken Language Processing

Author: Xuedong Huang

Publisher: Prentice Hall

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 1018

ISBN-13:

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Remarkable progress is being made in spoken language processing, but many powerful techniques have remained hidden in conference proceedings and academic papers, inaccessible to most practitioners. In this book, the leaders of the Speech Technology Group at Microsoft Research share these advances -- presenting not just the latest theory, but practical techniques for building commercially viable products.KEY TOPICS: Spoken Language Processing draws upon the latest advances and techniques from multiple fields: acoustics, phonology, phonetics, linguistics, semantics, pragmatics, computer science, electrical engineering, mathematics, syntax, psychology, and beyond. The book begins by presenting essential background on speech production and perception, probability and information theory, and pattern recognition. The authors demonstrate how to extract useful information from the speech signal; then present a variety of contemporary speech recognition techniques, including hidden Markov models, acoustic and language modeling, and techniques for improving resistance to environmental noise. Coverage includes decoders, search algorithms, large vocabulary speech recognition techniques, text-to-speech, spoken language dialog management, user interfaces, and interaction with non-speech interface modalities. The authors also present detailed case studies based on Microsoft's advanced prototypes, including the Whisper speech recognizer, Whistler text-to-speech system, and MiPad handheld computer.MARKET: For anyone involved with planning, designing, building, or purchasing spoken language technology.

Advances in Chinese Spoken Language Processing
Advances in Chinese Spoken Language Processing

Author: Chin-Hui Lee

Publisher: World Scientific

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 564

ISBN-13: 9812772960

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After decades of research activity, Chinese spoken language processing (CSLP) has advanced considerably both in practical technology and theoretical discovery. In this book, the editors provide both an introduction to the field as well as unique research problems with their solutions in various areas of CSLP. The contributions represent pioneering efforts ranging from CSLP principles to technologies and applications, with each chapter encapsulating a single problem and its solutions.A commemorative volume for the 10th anniversary of the international symposium on CSLP in Singapore, this is a valuable reference for established researchers and an excellent introduction for those interested in the area of CSLP.

Recent Research Towards Advanced Man-Machine Interface Through Spoken Language
Recent Research Towards Advanced Man-Machine Interface Through Spoken Language

Author: H. Fujisaki

Publisher: Elsevier

Published: 1996-10-24

Total Pages: 543

ISBN-13: 008054035X

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The spoken language is the most important means of human information transmission. Thus, as we enter the age of the Information Society, the use of the man-machine interface through the spoken language becomes increasingly important. Due to the extent of the problems involved, however, full realization of such an interface calls for coordination of research efforts beyond the scope of a single group or institution. Thus a nationwide research project was conceived and started in 1987 as one of the first Priority Research Areas supported by the Ministry of Education, Science and Culture of Japan. The project was carried out in collaboration with over 190 researchers in Japan. The present volume begins with an overview of the project, followed by 41 papers presented at the symposia. This work is expected to serve as an important source of information on each of the nine topics adopted for intensive study under the project. This book will serve as a guideline for further work in the important scientific and technological field of spoken language processing.

Understanding Spoken Language
Understanding Spoken Language

Author: Donald E. Walker

Publisher: North Holland

Published: 1978

Total Pages: 442

ISBN-13:

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Responding appropriately to the matter-of-fact utterances is a common form of intelligent behavior, but specifying precisely, rather loosely or intuitively, what takes places in even the most ordinary conversational exchanges poses formidably complex problems. This book is about those problems as they were faced in order to design and implement a computer system for processing spoken English discourse within a limited domain in an intelligent manner. "In an intelligent manner" is a key concept of the design. Because of it, the design, implementation and testing reported here are as germane to artificial intelligence, linguistics and psychology as they are to the sciences of signal processing and speech.

Understanding and Using Spoken Language
Understanding and Using Spoken Language

Author: Catherine Delamain

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 287

ISBN-13: 9780863885150

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Aimed at teachers and speech and language therapists, this title presents a collection of games and activities for seven- to nine-year-olds or older children with impaired communication skills. The material is compatible with new National Curriculum guidelines on using and understanding language.

Unlocking Speaking and Listening
Unlocking Speaking and Listening

Author: Pamela Hodson

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2011-10-07

Total Pages: 185

ISBN-13: 1136625402

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Speaking and listening are key elements of the primary English National Curriculum; they are also fundamental to children's language development and learning. The need for teachers to develop children's talk in its own right and also to use talk as a means of learning is central to effective primary practice, yet it is an area in which teachers often have little confidence. The contributors offer creative and practical advice on teaching speaking and listening from the early years through Key Stages 1 and 2, underpinned by theory into the approach. --from publisher description.

Speech and Computer
Speech and Computer

Author: Alexey Karpov

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2021-09-22

Total Pages: 856

ISBN-13: 3030878023

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This book constitutes the proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Speech and Computer, SPECOM 2021, held in St. Petersburg, Russia, in September 2021.* The 74 papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 163 submissions. The papers present current research in the area of computer speech processing including audio signal processing, automatic speech recognition, speaker recognition, computational paralinguistics, speech synthesis, sign language and multimodal processing, and speech and language resources. *Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, SPECOM 2021 was held as a hybrid event.