Spoken Language Processing: A Guide to Theory, Algorithm and System Development - Hardcover

Xuedong, Huang; Alex, Acero

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0130226165 ISBN 13: 9780130226167

Verlag: Financial Times Prentice Hall, 2001

Inhaltsangabe

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.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

XUEDONG HUANG is founder and head of the Speech Technology Group at Microsoft Research. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Edinburgh. He is an IEEE Fellow. ALEX ACERO and HSIAO-WUEN HON are Senior Researchers at Microsoft Research and Senior Members of IEEE. Both received doctorates from Carnegie Mellon University. Foreword by Dr. Raj Reddy, Carnegie Mellon University

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• New advances in spoken language processing: theory and practice
• In-depth coverage of speech processing, speech recognition, speech synthesis, spoken language understanding, and speech interface design
• Many case studies from state-of-the-art systems, including examples from Microsoft's advanced research labs

Spoken Language Processing draws on the latest advances and techniques from multiple fields: computer science, electrical engineering, acoustics, linguistics, mathematics, psychology, and beyond. Starting with the fundamentals, it presents all this and more:

• Essential background on speech production and perception, probability and information theory, and pattern recognition
• Extracting information from the speech signal: useful representations and practical compression solutions
• Modern speech recognition techniques: hidden Markov models, acoustic and language modeling, improving resistance to environmental noises, search algorithms, and large vocabulary speech recognition
• Text-to-speech: analyzing documents, pitch and duration controls; trainable synthesis, and more
• Spoken language understanding: dialog management, spoken language applications, and multimodal interfaces

To illustrate the book's methods, the authors present detailed case studies based on state-of-the-art systems, including Microsoft's Whisper speech recognizer, Whistler text-to-speech system, Dr. Who dialog system, and the MiPad handheld device. Whether you're planning, designing, building, or purchasing spoken language technology, this is the state of the artfrom algorithms through business productivity.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Financial Times Prentice Hall
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2001
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0130226165
• ISBN 13: 9780130226167
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 1008
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar