The production of truly natural-sounding speech still poses considerable problems, and the reliable recognition of continuous speech is still open to major improvements. This text captures the essential elements of current research on artificial speech synthesis and recognition.

With the growing impact of information technology on daily life, speech is becoming increasingly important for providing a natural means of communication between humans and machines. This extensively reworked and updated new edition of Speech Synthesis and Recognition is an easy-to-read introduction to current speech technology. Aimed at advanced undergraduates and graduates in electronic engineering, computer science and information technology, the book is also relevant to professional engineers who need to understand enough about speech technology to be able to apply it successfully and to work effectively with speech experts. No advanced mathematical ability is required and no specialist prior knowledge of phonetics or of the properties of speech signals is assumed.

A theoretical, technical description of the basic knowledge and ideas that constitute a modern system for speech recognition by machine. The book covers areas including production, perception and acoustic-phonetic characterization of the speech signal and signal processing recognition.

What Is Speech Recognition Computer science and computational linguistics include a subfield called speech recognition that focuses on the development of approaches and technologies that enable computers to recognize spoken language and translate it into text. Speech recognition is an interdisciplinary subfield of computer science. It is also known as computer speech recognition (CSR) and speech to text (STT). Another name for it is automatic speech recognition (ASR). The domains of computer science, linguistics, and computer engineering are all represented in its incorporation of knowledge and study. Speech synthesis is the process of doing things backwards. How You Will Benefit (I) Insights, and validations about the following topics: Chapter 1: Speech recognition Chapter 2: Computational linguistics Chapter 3: Natural language processing Chapter 4: Speech processing Chapter 5: Pattern recognition Chapter 6: Language model Chapter 7: Deep learning Chapter 8: Recurrent neural network Chapter 9: Long short-term memory Chapter 10: Voice computing (II) Answering the public top questions about speech recognition. (III) Real world examples for the usage of speech recognition in many fields. (IV) 17 appendices to explain, briefly, 266 emerging technologies in each industry to have 360-degree full understanding of speech recognition' technologies. Who This Book Is For Professionals, undergraduate and graduate students, enthusiasts, hobbyists, and those who want to go beyond basic knowledge or information for any kind of speech recognition.

Provides the reader with a practical introduction to the wide range of important concepts that comprise the field of digital speech processing. Students of speech research and researchers working in the field can use this as a reference guide.

A study of digital speech processing, synthesis and recognition. This second edition contains new sections on the international standardization of robust and flexible speech coding techniques, waveform unit concatenation-based speech synthesis, large vocabulary continuous-speech recognition based on statistical pattern recognition, and more.

With a growing need for understanding the process involved in producing and perceiving spoken language, this timely publication answers these questions in an accessible reference. Containing material resulting from many years’ teaching and research, Speech Synthesis provides a complete account of the theory of speech. By bringing together the common goals and methods of speech synthesis into a single resource, the book will lead the way towards a comprehensive view of the process involved in human speech. The book includes applications in speech technology and speech synthesis. It is ideal for intermediate students of linguistics and phonetics who wish to proceed further, as well as researchers and engineers in telecommunications working in speech technology and speech synthesis who need a comprehensive overview of the field and who wish to gain an understanding of the objectives and achievements of the study of speech production and perception.