Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Study Institute on New Systems and Architecture for Automatic Speech Recognition and Synthesis, held at Bonas, Gers, France, 2-14 July 1984

Inhalt

I. Review of Basic Algorithms.- An Overview of Digital Techniques for Progessing Speech Signals.- Systems for Isolated and Connected Word Recognition.- II. System Architecture and Vlsi for Speech Processing.- Systolic Architectures for Connected Speech Recognition.- Computer Systems for High-Performance Speech Recognition.- VLSI Architectures for Recognition of Context-Free Languages.- Implementation of an Aeoustical Front-End for Speech Recognition.- Reconfigurable Modular Architecture for a Man-Machine Vocal Communication System in Real Time.- A Surrey of Algorithms & Architecture for Connected Speech Recognition.- III. Software Systems for Automatic Speech Recognition.- Knowledge-Based and Expert Systems in Automatic Speech Recognition.- The Speech Understanding and Dialog System EVAR.- A New Rule-Based Expert System for Speech Recognition.- SAY - A PC Based Speech Analysis System.- Automatic Generation of Linguistic, Phonetic and Acoustic Knowledge for a Diphone-Based Continuous Speech Recognition System.- The Use of Dynamic Frequency Warping in a Speaker-Independent Vowel Classifier.- Dynamic Time Warping Algorithms for Isolated and Connected Word Recognition.- An Efficient Algorithm for Recognizing Isolated Turkish Words.- A General Fuzzy-Parsing Scheme for Speech Recognition.- IV Speech Synthesis and Phonetics.- Linguistics and Automatic Processing of Speech.- Synthesis of Speech by Computers and Chips.- Prosodic Knowledge in the Rule-Based Synthex Expert System for Speech Synthesis.- Syntex - Unrestricted Conversion of Text to Speech for German.- Concatenation Rules for Demisyllable Speech Synthesis.- On the Use of Phonetic Knowledge for Automatic Speech Recognition.- Demisyllables as Processing Units for Automatic Speech Recognition and Lexical Access.- Detection and Recognition of Nasal Consonants in Continuous Speech - Preliminary Results.- Author Index.