Spoken Language Processing: A Guide to Theory, Algorithm and System Development by Huang, Xuedong, Acero, Alex, Hon, Hsiao-Wuen(May 5, 2001) Paperback

by Xuedong Huang

*New advances in spoken language 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 Microsofts advanced research labs Spoken Language Processing draws on the latest advances and techniques from multiple computer science, electrical engineering, acoustics, linguistics, mathematics, psychology, and beyond. Starting with the fundamentals, it presents all this and *Essential background on speech production and perception, probability and information theory, and pattern recognition *Extracting information from the speech useful representations and practical compression solutions *Modern speech recognition hidden Markov models, acoustic and language modeling, improving resistance to environmental noises, search algorithms, and large vocabulary speech recognition * analyzing documents, pitch and duration controls; trainable synthesis, and more *Spoken language dialog management, spoken language applications, and multimodal interfaces. T

Genres: Reference, Linguistics

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First published May 5, 2001