It is an established tradition that researchers from many countries get together on the average every three years for a two week Advanced Studies Institute on Automatic Speech Recognition and Synthesis. According to ASI policies the Institute is financed by NATO. This book contains the texts of lectures and papers contributed by the attendees of the ASI which was held July 2 - 14, 1984, at Bonas, Gers, France. Focussed on New Systems and Architectures for Automatic Speech Recognition and Synthesis, this book is divided into 4 parts: (a) Review of ba8ic algorithm8 (b) SY8tem architecture and VLSI for automatic Speech (c) Software 8Y8tem8 for automatic 8peech recognition, (d) Speech 8ynthe8i8 and phonetic8. Due to the international nature of the Institute, the readers will find in this book different styles, different points of view and applications to different languages. This reflects also some characteristics of the International Association for Pattern Recognition (!APR) whose technical committee on Speech Recognition has organized this ASI. Proposed contributions have been reviewed by an Editorial Committee composed of W. Ainsworth (Kent), R. Bisiani (Pittsburgh), J. P. Haton (Nancy), W. Hess (Munich), J. L. Houle (Montreal), P. Laface (Turin), R. Moore (Malvern), H. Niemann (Erlangen) and J. Ohala (Berkeley). Typesetting of the book was performed using SYMSET facilities developed entirely by the Department of Computer Science at Concordia University. Special thanks are due to L. Lam, H. Monkiewicz and L. Thiel.

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.