Speech processing - Article Index

Encyclopedia - Acoustics: Encyclopedia - Acoustics
Acoustics is a branch of physics and is the study of sound, mechanical waves in gases, liquids, and solids. A scientist who works in the ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Cluttering: Encyclopedia - Cluttering
Cluttering is a communicative disorder that involves short attention span, inability to listen, and difficulties with syntax. Cluttering ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Stuttering: Encyclopedia - Stuttering
Stuttering (known as stammering in parts of the UK and scientifically known as dysphemia) is a speech disorder in which the normal flow o...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Speech Recognition: Encyclopedia Ii - Speech Recognition - Technical Issues
Modern speech recognition systems are generally based on hidden Markov models (HMMs). This is a statistical model which outputs a sequenc...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Speech Synthesis: Encyclopedia Ii - Speech Synthesis - Synthesizer Technologies
There are two main technologies used for the generating synthetic speech waveforms: concatenative synthesis and formant synthesis. Speec...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Speech Recognition: Encyclopedia Ii - Speech Recognition - Technical Issues
Modern speech recognition systems are generally based on hidden Markov models (HMMs). This is a statistical model which outputs a sequenc...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Speech Synthesis: Encyclopedia Ii - Speech Synthesis - Synthesizer Technologies
The two characteristics used to describe the quality of of a speech synthesis system are naturalness and intelligibility. The naturalness...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Acoustics: Encyclopedia Ii - Acoustics - Sound Pressure Level Spl
The amplitude of a sound wave is usually characterized by its sound pressure. In a normal working environment, a very wide range of press...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Stuttering: Encyclopedia Ii - Stuttering - Characteristics
Stuttering - Fluency. Speech fluency consist of three variables: continuity, rate, and ease of speaking. Continuity refers to speech th...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Speech Recognition: Encyclopedia Ii - Speech Recognition - Market Players
The challenge for developers of ASR engines is that the end customer judges them on one criterion: did it understand what I said? That le...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Speech Recognition: Encyclopedia Ii - Speech Recognition - Use
Commercial systems for speech recognition have been available off-the-shelf since the 1990s. Despite the apparent success of the technolo...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Speech Recognition: Encyclopedia Ii - Speech Recognition - Classification
Such systems can be classified as to Whether they require the user to "train" the system to recognise their own particular speech patter...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Voice Production: Encyclopedia - Voice Production
Voice production is the generation of sound in the human speech organs. For simplicity we begin our inquiry with the pure vowels, but our...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Linguistics: Encyclopedia - Linguistics
Linguistics is the scientific study of human language, and someone who engages in this study is called a linguist or linguistician. Lingu...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Speech Recognition: Encyclopedia Ii - Speech Recognition - Market Players
The challenge for developers of ASR engines is that the end customer judges them on one criterion: did it understand what I said? That le...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Speech Synthesis: Encyclopedia Ii - Speech Synthesis - Overview Of Speech Synthesis Technology
A text-to-speech system (or engine) is composed of two parts: a front-end and a back-end. Broadly, the front-end takes input in the form ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Stuttering: Encyclopedia Ii - Stuttering - Stuttering And Society
For centuries stuttering has often featured prominently in both popular culture and in society at large. Because of the unusual-sounding ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Stuttering: Encyclopedia Ii - Stuttering - Treatments
There are many treatments for stuttering, none of which is 100% effective. Traditional speech therapy reduces the frequency and severity ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Stuttering: Encyclopedia Ii - Stuttering - Causes
There is no known cause for stuttering. Theories about the causes of stuttering can be divided into three categories. Stuttering - Genet...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Stuttering: Encyclopedia Ii - Stuttering - Onset And Development
Like most other speech disorders, stuttering begins in early childhood, when a child is first developing his or her speech and language s...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Speech Recognition: Encyclopedia Ii - Speech Recognition - Use
Commercial systems for speech recognition have been available off-the-shelf since the 1990s. Despite the apparent success of the technolo...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Acoustics: Encyclopedia Ii - Acoustics - Helmholtz Resonator
A Helmholtz resonator is a container with an open hole or neck. It is sometimes used as a passive noise control device. It behaves essent...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Speech Recognition: Encyclopedia Ii - Speech Recognition - Classification
Such systems can be classified as to Whether they require the user to "train" the system to recognise their own particular speech patter...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Speech Synthesis: Encyclopedia Ii - Speech Synthesis - Overview Of Speech Synthesis Technology
A text-to-speech system (or engine) is composed of two parts: a front end and a back end. Broadly, the front end takes input in the form ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Speech Synthesis: Encyclopedia Ii - Speech Synthesis - Speech Synthesis Markup Languages
A number of markup languages have been established for rendition of text as speech in an XML compliant format, the most recent being SSML...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Speech Synthesis: Encyclopedia Ii - Speech Synthesis - Front-end Challenges
Speech synthesis - Text normalization challenges. The process of normalizing text is rarely straightforward. Texts are full of homograp...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Speech Synthesis: Encyclopedia Ii - Speech Synthesis - History
Long before modern electronic signal processing was invented, speech researchers tried to build machines to create human speech. Early ex...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Linguistics: Encyclopedia Ii - Linguistics - Dichotomies And Language
The study of linguistics can be thought of along three major axes, the endpoints of which are described below: Synchronic vs Diachronic:...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - List Of Software Engineering Topics: Encyclopedia Ii - List Of Software Engineering Topics - Influence On Society
Software engineers affect society by creating applications. These applications produce value for users, and sometimes produce disasters. ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - List Of Software Engineering Topics: Encyclopedia Ii - List Of Software Engineering Topics - Technologies And Practices
Skilled software engineers use technologies and practices from a variety of fields to improve their productivity in creating software and...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - List Of Software Engineering Topics: Encyclopedia Ii - List Of Software Engineering Topics - Community Topics
List of software engineering topics - Pioneers. Many people made important contributions to SE technologies, practices, or applications...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - List Of Software Engineering Topics: Encyclopedia Ii - List Of Software Engineering Topics - Odds And Ends
List of software engineering topics - Related fields. Traditional engineering Computer engineering Electrical engineering Software ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Linguistics: Encyclopedia Ii - Linguistics - Prescription And Description
Research currently performed under the name "linguistics" is purely descriptive; linguists seek to clarify the nature of language without...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Linguistics: Encyclopedia Ii - Linguistics - Diachronic Linguistics
Whereas the core of theoretical linguistics is concerned with studying languages at a particular point in time (usually the present), dia...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Linguistics: Encyclopedia Ii - Linguistics - Levels Of Theoretical Linguistics
Theoretical linguistics is often divided into a number of separate areas, to be studied more or less independently. The following divisio...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Linguistics: Encyclopedia Ii - Linguistics - Applied Linguistics
Whereas theoretical linguistics is concerned with finding and describing generalities both within particular languages and among all lang...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Linguistics: Encyclopedia Ii - Linguistics - Contextual Linguistics
Contextual linguistics is where the discipline of linguistics interacts with other academic disciplines. Whereas in core theoretical ling...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Linguistics: Encyclopedia Ii - Linguistics - Speech Versus Writing
Most contemporary linguists work under the assumption that spoken language is more fundamental, and thus more important to study than wri...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Linguistics: Encyclopedia Ii - Linguistics - Important Linguists And Schools Of Thought
Early scholars of linguistics include Jakob Grimm, who devised the principle of consonantal shifts in pronunciation known as Grimm's Law ...   » Read the article