Language, Speech, and Technology

Author: Wang Shi-yuan
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Publish Date: 2006-08-01
Features: This manuscript provides an in-depth yet accessible introduction to the fundamental theories and application areas of international linguistics, phonetics, and speech technology. The book is divided into two main parts: Part one focuses on research in linguistics and phonetics, primarily introducing the relationship between linguistics and other disciplines, the development process of mainstream American linguistic theories, and the theories and methods of modern phonetic research. The second part covers speech engineering technology, primarily introducing the theories and techniques of modern speech engineering, speech synthesis, speech recognition, and common speech signal processing methods and tools. The book is divided into two parts and twelve chapters, including: Linguistics and Phonetics, The Production of Speech, The Perception of Speech, The Analysis of Speech, The Changes of Speech and Language, Several Topics, Hidden Markov Models, Support Vector Machines, etc.