1. S PEECH T ECHNOLOGY Answers to some Questions

2. S PEECH T ECHNOLOGY WHAT IS SPEECH TECHNOLOGY ABOUT ?? SPEECH TECHNOLOGY IS ABOUT PROCESSING HUMAN SPEECH as SIGNAL as a form of LANGUAGE

3. 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

4. S PEECH T ECHNOLOGY WHERE DOES SPEECH TECHNOLOGY FIND ITS APPLICATIONS ??

5. 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

6. S PEECH T ECHNOLOGY WHERE DOES SPEECH TECHNOLOGY FIND ITS APPLICATIONS ?? 2. COMMUNICATIONS SPEECH CODING / COMPRESSION SPEECH ENHANCEMENT (in noisy environments)

7. S PEECH T ECHNOLOGY WHERE DOES SPEECH TECHNOLOGY FIND ITS APPLICATIONS ?? 3. BIOMETRICS SPEAKER IDENTIFICATION

8. S PEECH T ECHNOLOGY WHERE DOES SPEECH TECHNOLOGY FIND ITS APPLICATIONS ?? 4. ENTERTAINMENT TECHNOLOGY SINGING MACHINES VOICE CONVERSION

9. 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) ]

10. 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

11. S PEECH T ECHNOLOGY WHAT ARE WE DOING CURRENTLY ?? 1. INDIAN LANGUAGE SPEECH SYNTHESIS http://speech.iiit.net/ SYNTHESIZED SPEECH 1 SYNTHESIZED SPEECH 2

12. S PEECH T ECHNOLOGY 2.SPEECH RECOGNITION 3. PROSODY MANIPULAITON MANIPULATED SPEECH 1 MANIPULATED SPEECH 2 WHAT ARE WE DOING CURRENTLY ??

13. S PEECH T ECHNOLOGY 4. SPEECH ENABLED INTERFACES (Web, PDAs) 5. READING AID FOR VISUALLY IMPAIRED WHAT ARE WE DOING CURRENTLY ??

14. S PEECH T ECHNOLOGY WHO WILL YOU BE WORKING WITH ?? S. P. Kishore (Ph.D. @ CMU, Scientist @ IIIT) Prof. Rajeev Sangal Dr. Vasudeva Varma Close Association with Faculty Members of Speech Group at CMU Me (Rohit Kumar)

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