S PEECH T ECHNOLOGY Answers to some Questions
S PEECH T ECHNOLOGY WHAT IS SPEECH TECHNOLOGY ABOUT ?? SPEECH TECHNOLOGY IS ABOUT PROCESSING HUMAN SPEECH as SIGNAL as a form of LANGUAGE
S PEECH T ECHNOLOGY WHAT ALL IS INVOLVED IN PROCESSING SPEECH ?? MULTI-DISCIPLINARY FIELD Linguistics Physiology Psychology Signal Processing Acoustics (Physics) Statistics Pattern Recognition Communication Theory Computer Science: A.I. Heuristics / Machine Learning Speech Technology
S PEECH T ECHNOLOGY WHERE DOES SPEECH TECHNOLOGY FIND ITS APPLICATIONS ??
S PEECH T ECHNOLOGY WHERE DOES SPEECH TECHNOLOGY FIND ITS APPLICATIONS ?? 1. MAN MACHINE INTERFACES TALKING MACHINES (TERMINATOR) TELEPHONIC INTERFACES SPEECH ENABLED WEB INTERFACES INTERFACES FOR THE DISABLED
S PEECH T ECHNOLOGY WHERE DOES SPEECH TECHNOLOGY FIND ITS APPLICATIONS ?? 2. COMMUNICATIONS SPEECH CODING / COMPRESSION SPEECH ENHANCEMENT (in noisy environments)
S PEECH T ECHNOLOGY WHERE DOES SPEECH TECHNOLOGY FIND ITS APPLICATIONS ?? 3. BIOMETRICS SPEAKER IDENTIFICATION
S PEECH T ECHNOLOGY WHERE DOES SPEECH TECHNOLOGY FIND ITS APPLICATIONS ?? 4. ENTERTAINMENT TECHNOLOGY SINGING MACHINES VOICE CONVERSION
S PEECH T ECHNOLOGY CHALLENGES High Performance Speech Recognition Systems Automatic Speech Recognizers for Indian languages (no major systems available) Audio-Visual Speech recognition Speech Recognition in tiny / mobile devices [ Robots, Watches (Bond Stuff) ]
S PEECH T ECHNOLOGY CHALLENGES Naturally Speaking Synthesis Systems Indian Language T. T. S. (Improvements and extensions to various Indian Languages) Customizable T.T.S. Ability to produce Emotional Speech
S PEECH T ECHNOLOGY WHAT ARE WE DOING CURRENTLY ?? 1. INDIAN LANGUAGE SPEECH SYNTHESIS SYNTHESIZED SPEECH 1 SYNTHESIZED SPEECH 2
S PEECH T ECHNOLOGY 2.SPEECH RECOGNITION 3. PROSODY MANIPULAITON MANIPULATED SPEECH 1 MANIPULATED SPEECH 2 WHAT ARE WE DOING CURRENTLY ??
S PEECH T ECHNOLOGY 4. SPEECH ENABLED INTERFACES (Web, PDAs) 5. READING AID FOR VISUALLY IMPAIRED WHAT ARE WE DOING CURRENTLY ??
S PEECH T ECHNOLOGY WHO WILL YOU BE WORKING WITH ?? S. P. Kishore CMU, IIIT) Prof. Rajeev Sangal Dr. Vasudeva Varma Close Association with Faculty Members of Speech Group at CMU Me (Rohit Kumar)
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