The Integration of Phonetic Knowledge in Speech Technology

Continued progress in Speech Technology in the face of ever-increasing demands on the performance levels of applications is a challenge to the whole speech and language science community. Robust recognition and understanding of spontaneous speech in varie

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The Integration of Phonetic Knowledge in Speech Technology

Text, Speech and Language Technology VOLUME 25

Series Editors Nancy Ide, Vassar College, New York Jean Véronis, Université de Provence and CNRS, France Editorial Board Harald Baayen, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, The Netherlands Kenneth W. Church, AT & T Bell Labs, New Jersey, USA Judith Klavans, Columbia University, New York, USA David T. Barnard, University of Regina, Canada Dan Tufis, Romanian Academy of Sciences, Romania Joaquim Llisterri, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, Spain Stig Johansson, University of Oslo, Norway Joseph Mariani, LIMSI-CNRS, France

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The Integration of Phonetic Knowledge in Speech Technology Edited by

William J. Barry Universität des Saarlandes, Saarbrücken, Germany

and

Wim A. van Dommelen Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway

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ISBN-10 1-4020-2636-6 (PB) Springer Dordrecht, Berlin, Heidelberg, New York ISBN-13 978-1-4020-2636-2 (PB) Springer Dordrecht, Berlin, Heidelberg, New York ISBN-10 1-4020-2635-8 (HB) Springer Dordrecht, Berlin, Heidelberg, New York ISBN-10 1-4020-2637-4 (e-book) Springer Dordrecht, Berlin, Heidelberg, New York ISBN-13 978-1-4020-2635-5 (HB) Springer Dordrecht, Berlin, Heidelberg, New York ISBN-13 978-1-4020-2637-9 (e-book) Springer Dordrecht, Berlin, Heidelberg, New York

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

Foreword WILLIAM J. BARRY, WIM A. VAN DOMMELEN & JACQUES KOREMAN / Phonetic Knowledge in Speech Technology – and Phonetic Knowledge ffrom Speech Technologgy? WILLIAM A. AINSWORTH / Can Phonetic Knowledge be Used to Improve the Performance of Speech Recognisers and Synthesisers? ANTON BATLINER & BERND MO¨BIUS / Prosodic Models, Automatic Speech Understanding, and Speech Synthesis: Towards the Common Ground? JULIE CARSON-BERNDSEN & MICHAEL WALSH / Phonetic Time Maps HEIDI CHRISTENSEN, BØRGE LINDBERG & OVE ANDERSEN / Introducing Phonetically Motivated, Heterogeneous Information into Automatic Speech Recognition GUILLAUME GRAVIER, FRANCOIS YVON, BRUNO JACOB & FRE´DE´RIC BIMBOT / Introducing Contextual Transcription Rules in Large Vocabulary Speech Recognition STEVEN GREENBERG / From Here to Utility MOISE´S PASTOR & FRANCISCO CASACUBERTA / Pronunciation Modeling JAN P. H. VAN SANTEN / Phonetic Knowledge in Text-to-Speech Synthesis HELMER STRIK / Is