Multilingual Speech Processing

By: Tanja Schultz

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Hardcover | 21 April 2006

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Tanja Schultz and Katrin Kirchhoff have compiled a comprehensive overview of speech processing from a multilingual perspective. By taking this all-inclusive approach to speech processing, the editors have included theories, algorithms, and techniques that are required to support spoken input and output in a large variety of languages. Multilingual Speech Processing presents a comprehensive introduction to research problems and solutions, both from a theoretical as well as a practical perspective, and highlights technology that incorporates the increasing necessity for multilingual applications in our global community.

Current challenges of speech processing and the feasibility of sharing data and system components across different languages guide contributors in their discussions of trends, prognoses and open research issues. This includes automatic speech recognition and speech synthesis, but also speech-to-speech translation, dialog systems, automatic language identification, and handling non-native speech. The book is complemented by an overview of multilingual resources, important research trends, and actual speech processing systems that are being deployed in multilingual human-human and human-machine interfaces.

Researchers and developers in industry and academia with different backgrounds but a common interest in multilingual speech processing will find an excellent overview of research problems and solutions detailed from theoretical and practical perspectives.

State-of-the-art research with a global perspective by authors from the USA, Asia, Europe, and South Africa
The only comprehensive introduction to multilingual speech processing currently available
Detailed presentation of technological advances integral to security, financial, cellular and commercial applications

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"Researchers and developers in industry and academia with different backgrounds will find this book an excellent overview of research problems and solutions" --J. Audio Eng. Soc., July/August 2006

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Contributor Biographies	p. xvii
Foreword	p. xxvii
Introduction	p. 1
Language Characteristics	p. 5
Languages and Dialects	p. 5
Linguistic Description and Classification	p. 8
Language in Context	p. 20
Writing Systems	p. 22
Languages and Speech Technology	p. 30
Linguistic Data Resources	p. 33
Demands and Challenges of Multilingual Data-Collection Efforts	p. 33
International Efforts and Cooperation	p. 40
Data Collection Efforts in the United States	p. 44
Data Collection Efforts in Europe	p. 55
Overview Existing Language Resources in Europe	p. 64
Multilingual Acoustic Modeling	p. 71
Introduction	p. 71
Problems and Challenges	p. 79
Language Independent Sound Inventories and Representations	p. 91
Acoustic Model Combination	p. 102
Insights and Open Problems	p. 118
Multilingual Dictionaries	p. 123
Introduction	p. 123
Multilingual Dictionaries	p. 125
What Is a Word?	p. 129
Vocabulary Selection	p. 141
How to Generate Pronunciations	p. 149
Discussion	p. 166
Multilingual Language Modeling	p. 169
Statistical Language Modeling	p. 169
Model Estimation for New Domains and Speaking Styles	p. 174
Crosslingual Comparisons: A Language Modeling Perspective	p. 177
Crosslinguistic Bootstrapping for Language Modeling	p. 193
Language Models for Truly Multilingual Speech Recognition	p. 199
Discussion and Concluding Remarks	p. 202
Multilingual Speech Synthesis	p. 207
Background	p. 208
Building Voices in New Languages	p. 208
Database Design	p. 213
Prosodic Modeling	p. 216
Lexicon Building	p. 219
Non-native Spoken Output	p. 230
Summary	p. 231
Automatic Language Identification	p. 233
Introduction	p. 234
Human Language Identification	p. 235
Databases and Evaluation Methods	p. 240
The Probabilistic LID Framework	p. 242
Acoustic Approaches	p. 245
Phonotactic Modeling	p. 251
Prosodic LID	p. 262
LVCSR-Based LID	p. 266
Trends and Open Problems in LID	p. 268
Other Challenges: Non-native Speech, Dialects, Accents, and Local Interfaces	p. 273
Introduction	p. 273
Characteristics of Non-native Speech	p. 276
Corpus Analysis	p. 278
Acoustic Modeling Approaches for Non-native Speech	p. 287
Adapting to Non-native Accents in ASR	p. 288
Combining Speaker and Pronunciation Adaptation	p. 298
Cross-Dialect Recognition of Native Dialects	p. 299
Applications	p. 301
Other Factors in Localizing Speech-Based Interfaces	p. 309
Summary	p. 315
Speech-to-Speech Translation	p. 317
Introduction	p. 317
Statistical and Interlingua-Based Speech Translation Approaches	p. 320
Coupling Speech Recognition and Translation	p. 341
Portable Speech-to-Speech Translation: The ATR System	p. 347
Conclusion	p. 394
Multilingual Spoken Dialog Systems	p. 399
Introduction	p. 399
Previous Work	p. 403
Overview of the ISIS System	p. 407
Adaptivity to Knowledge Scope Expansion	p. 417
Delegation to Software Agents	p. 425
Interruptions and Multithreaded Dialogs	p. 427
Empirical Observations on User Interaction with ISIS	p. 433
Implementation of Multilingual SDS in VXML	p. 437
Summary and Conclusions	p. 443
Bibliography	p. 449
Index	p. 491
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