Author : R.I. Damper
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 22,37 MB
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 1475734131
This first review of a new field covers all areas of speech synthesis from text, ranging from text analysis to letter-to-sound conversion. At the leading edge of current research, the concise and accessible book is written by well respected experts in the field.
Author : Paul Taylor
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 626 pages
File Size : 39,84 MB
Release : 2009-02-19
Category : Computers
ISBN : 0521899273
Text-to-Speech Synthesis provides a complete, end-to-end account of the process of generating speech by computer. Giving an in-depth explanation of all aspects of current speech synthesis technology, it assumes no specialised prior knowledge. Introductory chapters on linguistics, phonetics, signal processing and speech signals lay the foundation, with subsequent material explaining how this knowledge is put to use in building practical systems that generate speech. Including coverage of the very latest techniques such as unit selection, hidden Markov model synthesis, and statistical text analysis, explanations of the more traditional techniques such as format synthesis and synthesis by rule are also provided. Weaving together the various strands of this multidisciplinary field, the book is designed for graduate students in electrical engineering, computer science, and linguistics. It is also an ideal reference for practitioners in the fields of human communication interaction and telephony.
Author : Oliver Lemon
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 39,59 MB
Release : 2012-10-21
Category : Computers
ISBN : 1461448026
Data driven methods have long been used in Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) and Text-To-Speech (TTS) synthesis and have more recently been introduced for dialogue management, spoken language understanding, and Natural Language Generation. Machine learning is now present “end-to-end” in Spoken Dialogue Systems (SDS). However, these techniques require data collection and annotation campaigns, which can be time-consuming and expensive, as well as dataset expansion by simulation. In this book, we provide an overview of the current state of the field and of recent advances, with a specific focus on adaptivity.
Author : Mullennix, John
Publisher : IGI Global
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 18,6 MB
Release : 2010-01-31
Category : Computers
ISBN : 1615207260
"This book provides practitioners and researchers with information that will allow them to better assist the speech disabled who wish to utilize computer synthesized speech (CSS) technology"--Provided by publisher.
Author : Andrei Popescu-Belis
Publisher : Springer
Page : 375 pages
File Size : 18,80 MB
Release : 2008-09-20
Category : Computers
ISBN : 3540858539
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 5th International Workshop on Machine Learning for Multimodal Interaction, MLMI 2008, held in Utrecht, The Netherlands, in September 2008. The 12 revised full papers and 15 revised poster papers presented together with 5 papers of a special session on user requirements and evaluation of multimodal meeting browsers/assistants were carefully reviewed and selected from 47 submissions. The papers cover a wide range of topics related to human-human communication modeling and processing, as well as to human-computer interaction, using several communication modalities. Special focus is given to the analysis of non-verbal communication cues and social signal processing, the analysis of communicative content, audio-visual scene analysis, speech processing, interactive systems and applications.
Author : Walter Daelemans
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 199 pages
File Size : 12,31 MB
Release : 2005-09-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1139445367
Memory-based language processing - a machine learning and problem solving method for language technology - is based on the idea that the direct reuse of examples using analogical reasoning is more suited for solving language processing problems than the application of rules extracted from those examples. This book discusses the theory and practice of memory-based language processing, showing its comparative strengths over alternative methods of language modelling. Language is complex, with few generalizations, many sub-regularities and exceptions, and the advantage of memory-based language processing is that it does not abstract away from this valuable low-frequency information. By applying the model to a range of benchmark problems, the authors show that for linguistic areas ranging from phonology to semantics, it produces excellent results. They also describe TiMBL, a software package for memory-based language processing. The first comprehensive overview of the approach, this book will be invaluable for computational linguists, psycholinguists and language engineers.
Author : Zygmunt Vetulani
Publisher : Springer
Page : 552 pages
File Size : 10,44 MB
Release : 2014-07-25
Category : Computers
ISBN : 3319089587
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 5th Language and Technology Conference: Challenges for Computer Science and Linguistics, LTC 2011, held in Poznan, Poland, in November 2011. The 44 revised and in many cases substantially extended papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 111 submissions. The focus of the papers is on the following topics: speech, parsing, computational semantics, text analysis, text annotation, language resources: general issues, language resources: ontologies and Wordnets and machine translation.
Author : Martin Rajman
Publisher : EPFL Press
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 30,55 MB
Release : 2007-04-20
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9780824722197
Efficient processing of speech and language is required at all levels in the design of human-computer interfaces. In this perspective, the book provides a global understanding of the required theoretical foundations, as well as practical examples of successful applications, in the area of human-language technology. The authors start from acoustic signal processing to pragmatics, covering all the important aspects of speech and language processing such as phonetics, morphology, syntax and semantics.
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Publisher : ScholarlyEditions
Page : 520 pages
File Size : 39,63 MB
Release : 2013-05-01
Category : Computers
ISBN : 1490109048
Issues in Computer Programming / 2013 Edition is a ScholarlyEditions™ book that delivers timely, authoritative, and comprehensive information about Computer Simulation. The editors have built Issues in Computer Programming: 2013 Edition on the vast information databases of ScholarlyNews.™ You can expect the information about Computer Simulation in this book to be deeper than what you can access anywhere else, as well as consistently reliable, authoritative, informed, and relevant. The content of Issues in Computer Programming: 2013 Edition has been produced by the world’s leading scientists, engineers, analysts, research institutions, and companies. All of the content is from peer-reviewed sources, and all of it is written, assembled, and edited by the editors at ScholarlyEditions™ and available exclusively from us. You now have a source you can cite with authority, confidence, and credibility. More information is available at http://www.ScholarlyEditions.com/.
Author : Canadian Society for Computational Studies of Intelligence. Conference
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 595 pages
File Size : 43,58 MB
Release : 2004-05-06
Category : Computers
ISBN : 3540220046
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 17th Conference of the Canadian Society for Computational Studies of Intelligence, Canadian AI 2004, held in London, Ontario, Canada in May 2004. The 29 revised full papers and 22 revised short papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 105 submissions. These papers are presented together with the extended abstracts of 14 contributions to the graduate students' track. The full papers are organized in topical sections on agents, natural language processing, learning, constraint satisfaction and search, knowledge representation and reasoning, uncertainty, and neural networks.
