Speech Technology

This is an overview of research and application of speech technologies in speech recognition technology, speech synthesis, spoken interaction, natural language understanding, speaker recognition, emotion in spoken dialogue systems, and more.

An overview of the research and application of speech technologies in different areas is set out in this book. User experience, human factors and usability issues are its focus. The book includes applications on in-vehicle information systems, military applications, and other industrial speech applications. The overview of each technology stretches from the history and the development of the technology, to the trend of the technical development in the coming few years. One of the special characteristics of the book is that the authors do not just present their own research work, but take a broad view of the multiple research areas and take the multidisciplinary approach to the topics. One of the goals in this book is to emphasize the application.

Reviews new automatic speech recognition technology and spoken dialogue systems; Includes applications on in-vehicle information systems, military applications, and other industrial speech applications; Focuses on human factors in automatic speech-based systems Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Autorentext

Dr. Chen is an associate professor at the Computing Science Department, Chalmers
University of Sweden. She has been working in Human Factors and Ergonomics
research for over 20 years and has published over 20 papers in the cognitive science
specially related to speech technology application. Chen has over 20 years teaching and
research experience on ergonomics, human factors and human-computer interaction.
She has been teaching on human cognition, human-computer interaction, usability and
user-centered design, and research methodology in undergraduate and graduate level. In
the past 8 years, her research interests in focused on speech and multimodal interaction
design in different applications.

Dr. Jokinen is a Professor of Language Technology at the University of Helsinki. She
has played a leading role in several academic and industrial research projects
concerning spoken dialogue systems, cooperative communication, adaptation, and
multimodality. She has published a large number of articles and papers, organized many
workshops in major international workshops, and given several invited talks and
seminars. She is the secretary of the SIGDial, the ISCA/ACL Special Interest Group for
Discourse and Dialogue.

Klappentext
In recent years, spoken language research has successfully developed several practical applications, as well as brought forward advanced novel topics to investigate further. Speech Technology: Theory and Applications collects interesting research and development results and provides an overview of selected challenges still to be resolved. The book is organized along two main themes: research on enabling technology and applications that exemplify the use of this technology. Each chapter is an independent review of a specific topic, covering research problems and possible solutions. The basic technology development covers areas such as automatic speech recognition and speech synthesis, spoken dialogue systems and dialogue modeling, expressive speech synthesis, emotions and affective computing, multimodal communication and animated agents. The applications include speech translation, in-car, space, and military applications as well as those for special user groups. Discussion of general evaluation methodologies is also included. Speech Technology: Theory and Applications should be a useful reference for researchers, engineers and students in the field of speech technology.

Inhalt
History and Development of Speech Recognition.- Challenges in Speech Synthesis.- Spoken Language Dialogue Models.- The Industry of Spoken-Dialog Systems and the Third Generation of Interactive Applications.- Deceptive Speech: Clues from Spoken Language.- Cognitive Approaches to Spoken Language Technology.- Expressive Speech Processing and Prosody Engineering: An Illustrated Essay on the Fragmented Nature of Real Interactive Speech.- Interacting with Embodied Conversational Agents.- Multimodal Information Processing for Affective Computing.- Spoken Language Translation.- Application of Speech Technology in Vehicles.- Spoken Dialogue Application in Space: The Clarissa Procedure Browser.- Military Applications: Human Factors Aspects of Speech-Based Systems.- Accessibility and Design for All Solutions Through Speech Technology.- Assessment and Evaluation of Speech-Based Interactive Systems: From Manual Annotation to Automatic Usability Evaluation.