Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Study Institute, Bonas, France, June 26-July 7, 1979

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Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Study Institute, Bonas, France, June 26-July 7, 1979

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§ 1. An Overview, with an Emphasis on Psychology.- Spoken Language Generation and Understanding by Machine: A Problems and Applications Oriented Overview.- Speech Understanding as a Psychological Process.- What the Engineers Would Like to Know from the Psychologists.- Perceptual Studies of Speech Rhythm: Isochrony and Intonation.- Estimation of Articulatory Motion from Speech Waves and Its Application for Automatic Recognition.- § 2. Acoustic and Phonemic.- Speech Signal Processing and Feature Extraction.- Pattern Recognition Techniques for Speech Recognition.- Automatic Mapping of Acoustic Features into Phonemic Labels.- Automatic Phoneme Recognition in Continuous Speech: A Syntactic Approach.- Syntactic Approach to Pattern Recognition.- Phoneme Recognition Using a Cochlear Model.- Pitch Determination of Speech Signals - A Survey.- Speech Analysis Using Syntactic Methods and a Pitch Synchronous Formant Detector on the Direct Signal.- Variability of Vowel Formant Frequency in Different Speech Styles.- § 3. Lexicon, Syntax and Semantic.- The Representation and Use of a Lexicon in Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding.- Control of Syntax and Semantics in Continuous Speech Understanding.- A Classification Method Based on Fuzzy Naming Relations over Finite Languages.- § 4. Speech Synthesis.- Speech Synthesis from Text.- An Over-view of Speech Synthesis.- Speech Synthesis for an Unlimited Vocabulary, a Powerful Tool for Inquiry and Information Services.- Time-Domain Formant-Wave-Function Synthesis.- A Programmable, Digital Speech Synthesiser.- An Intelligent Speech Prosthesis with a Lexical Memory.- § 5. Sysytems and Applications.- Industrial Applications of Speech Recognition.- Some Points Concerning Speech Communication with Computers.- Secure Speech Communication over a CCITT-Speech Channel.- Speech Compression/Recognition with Robust Features.- A Real-Time System for Speech Recognition.- Speech Training of Deaf Children Using the Sirene System: First Results and Conclusions.- The KEAL Speech Understanding System.- The LOCUST System.- The MYRTILLE II Speech Understanding System.- Index of Names.