Speech Technologies / / edited by Ivo Ipsic.

• TeilnehmendeR: Ipsic, Ivo,
• Place / Publishing House: Croatia : : Intech,, 2011.
• Year of Publication: 2011
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (446 pages) :; illustrations

This book addresses different aspects of the research field and a wide range of topics in speech signal processing, speech recognition and language processing. The chapters are divided in three different sections: Speech Signal Modeling, Speech Recognition and Applications. The chapters in the first section cover some essential topics in speech signal processing used for building speech recognition as well as for speech synthesis systems: speech feature enhancement, speech feature vector dimensionality reduction, segmentation of speech frames into phonetic segments. The chapters of the second part cover speech recognition methods and techniques used to read speech from various speech databases and broadcast news recognition for English and non-English languages. The third section of the book presents various speech technology applications used for body conducted speech recognition, hearing impairment, multimodal interfaces and facial expression recognition.