A Microcomputer-based System for Speech Recognition and Synthesis
Title | A Microcomputer-based System for Speech Recognition and Synthesis PDF eBook |
Author | Ming-yüan Yang |
Publisher | |
Pages | 116 |
Release | 1980 |
Genre | Automatic speech recognition |
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Design Decisions for a Microcomputer Based Speech Recognition System
Title | Design Decisions for a Microcomputer Based Speech Recognition System PDF eBook |
Author | Matthew John Yuschik |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 1983 |
Genre | Automatic speech recognition |
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Microcomputer Speech Synthesis and Recognition
Title | Microcomputer Speech Synthesis and Recognition PDF eBook |
Author | Adrian S. Poulton |
Publisher | Sigma Press |
Pages | 220 |
Release | 1983 |
Genre | Automatic speech recognition |
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An Investigation for the Design of a Microcomputer Based Speech Recognition System
Title | An Investigation for the Design of a Microcomputer Based Speech Recognition System PDF eBook |
Author | Arj Wichiencharoen |
Publisher | |
Pages | 134 |
Release | 1981 |
Genre | Automatic speech recognition |
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An Improved Microcomputer-based Speech Recognition System
Title | An Improved Microcomputer-based Speech Recognition System PDF eBook |
Author | Edward J. Webb |
Publisher | |
Pages | |
Release | 1981 |
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New Systems and Architectures for Automatic Speech Recognition and Synthesis
Title | New Systems and Architectures for Automatic Speech Recognition and Synthesis PDF eBook |
Author | Renato DeMori |
Publisher | Springer Science & Business Media |
Pages | 630 |
Release | 2012-12-06 |
Genre | Computers |
ISBN | 3642824471 |
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
The Voice in the Machine
Title | The Voice in the Machine PDF eBook |
Author | Roberto Pieraccini |
Publisher | MIT Press |
Pages | 355 |
Release | 2012-03-23 |
Genre | Computers |
ISBN | 026230077X |
An examination of more than sixty years of successes and failures in developing technologies that allow computers to understand human spoken language. Stanley Kubrick's 1968 film 2001: A Space Odyssey famously featured HAL, a computer with the ability to hold lengthy conversations with his fellow space travelers. More than forty years later, we have advanced computer technology that Kubrick never imagined, but we do not have computers that talk and understand speech as HAL did. Is it a failure of our technology that we have not gotten much further than an automated voice that tells us to “say or press 1”? Or is there something fundamental in human language and speech that we do not yet understand deeply enough to be able to replicate in a computer? In The Voice in the Machine, Roberto Pieraccini examines six decades of work in science and technology to develop computers that can interact with humans using speech and the industry that has arisen around the quest for these technologies. He shows that although the computers today that understand speech may not have HAL's capacity for conversation, they have capabilities that make them usable in many applications today and are on a fast track of improvement and innovation. Pieraccini describes the evolution of speech recognition and speech understanding processes from waveform methods to artificial intelligence approaches to statistical learning and modeling of human speech based on a rigorous mathematical model—specifically, Hidden Markov Models (HMM). He details the development of dialog systems, the ability to produce speech, and the process of bringing talking machines to the market. Finally, he asks a question that only the future can answer: will we end up with HAL-like computers or something completely unexpected?