Interacting with computers by voice: Automatic speech recognition and synthesis

Proceedings of the IEEE

Volumn 91, Issue 9, 2003, Pages 1272-1305

  O'Shaughnessy, Douglas ^a  

^a INRS EMT   (Canada)

Author keywords

Continuous speech recognition; Distance measures; Hidden markov models (HMMs); Human computer dialogues; Language models (LMs); Linear predictive coding (LPC); Spectral analysis; Speech synthesis; Text to speech (TTS)

Indexed keywords

ANIMATION; COMPUTER PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONTINUOUS SPEECH RECOGNITION; DATABASE SYSTEMS; DISTANCE MEASUREMENT; FOURIER TRANSFORMS; MARKOV PROCESSES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; SPEECH SYNTHESIS; TEXT PROCESSING;

AUTOMATIC SPEECH RECOGNITION; HIDDEN MARKOV MODELS (HMM); HUMAN-COMPUTER DIALOGUES; LANGUAGE MODELS (LM); LINEAR PREDICTIVE CODING (LPC); TEXT-TO-SPEECH (TTS);

HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION;

EID: 4944252269     PISSN: 00189219     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JPROC.2003.817117     Document Type: Conference Paper

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