Speech Recognition Books

I read the first edition of that book and it is terrific. The second edition is much more adapted to current research. Statistical methods in NLP are more detailed and some syntax-based approaches are presented. My specific interest is in machine translation and dialogue systems. Both chapters are extensively rewritten and much more elaborated. I believe this book is perfect for everyone who starts in speech and language processing. With precision, coherent examples and some humor, this book give a great introduction into this topic as well as material for already experienced readers.

Very instructive. I'll be purchasing a voice typing package for book writing and I now feel armed with enough information to make a wise choice.

This book is a truly innovative discussion of time-frequency representations in speech. The author starts with a brilliant analogy -- that of identifying a Mercedes by its hood ornament (which the author attributes to Dr. Mark Liberman) -- and shows how this analogy can be used to explain humans' processing of spectral information.

It gives a comprehensive review for the topic of speech procssing. It is helpful for both practicing engineer and a researcher. However, I think, it lacks many details to be used as a text book.

Dr. Beckman has created a powerful how-to guide to help families find the right technology to accommodate reading and other disabilities. There is a wealth of technology available in this book to help parents and adult learners. As a clinical psychologist, Dr. Beckman teaches people how to fit the tools to changing needs. Her "Does it make sense?" strategy helps deal with all the obstacles along the way.

Helen Gallagher, author: Computer Ease

I just finished the book "Using Speech Recognition." It is an excellent introduction to speech recognition!

I was poking around at the companies involved in speech rec products but had no moorings. The book was a tremendous help - I think that now I'll be able to "close the loop".

The references and cross references in the book are dynamite, too!

Verbmobil: Foundations of Speech-to-Speech Translation

This exceptionally readable (in English) account of the German Verbmobil project (1992-2000) is comprised of 47 contributions from the principal participants in the project. These contributions cover all aspects of this major effort in natural language processing under the headings:

- Introduction (Overview by editor) - From Speech Input to Augmented Word Lattices - Lexical and Syntactic Processing - Semantic Processing - Dialogue Translation - Dialogue Processing and Context Evaluation - Language Generation and Speech Synthesis - Data Collection and Evaluation - System Architecture and Software Integration.

The project culminated in a working prototype which allows bi-directional telephone dialogues in three discourse domains: Appointment Scheduling, Travel Planning and Remote PC Maintenance,- between German, Japanese and American-English speakers.

The work reported,

- represents the state of the art in Speaker-Independent Spontaneous Dialogue Recognition, Translation and Speech Synthesis, - provides quantitative data which illustrate the strength and weaknesses of symbolic and statistical approaches to translation in this context. - illuminates the tradeoffs in various approaches to deep linguistic analysis - illustrates the important role of acoustical and lexical data collection and processing. - gives insight into the interaction between the many modules as reflected in the detailed End-to-End evaluation of the system and its components - demonstrates the role of the underlying system and software architecture in providing both, a test-bed development environment and the basis for a near-real-time demonstration system. - reflects upon some of the management issues encountered in a project of this scope

The reported work includes a number of advances, including

- a speech controlled telephone dialogue system including speaker-language identification - integration of deep and shallow processing: results from concurrent translation threads. - systematic use of (multilingual) prosodic information at all processing stages, - Parsing, Dialog Understanding, Translation, Generation and Speech Synthesis - understanding of spontaneous speech repair - generation of dialogue summaries

The people responsible for editing this volume have raised the bar for technical writing. The result is an unusually lucid, concise and consistent exposition of work from several disciplines, generally only accessible to the specialists. Limiting the length of the individual contributions, has confined the reporting to what was accomplished in the course of the project., without compromising scientific rigor. If I have any criticism at all, it is the lack of a subject and author index and the occasional use of abbreviations not spelled out, at first use, within an article.

To those interested in speech recognition and machine translation, this is essential reading; - they'll be surprised to find it satisfying as well.

Those concerned with large-scale, distributed software development will find several new benchmarks in this project.

See also for a project overview. .

I recommend this book to anyone who works with computers and telephones. It has enough technical detail to be interesting to an engineer, and yet is still very readable by, say, linguists and phoneticians. I've read the chapters on interactive voice response and basic telephony more than once; in fact, this is the only book I know of with reasonable introductions to those subjects.

Voice over IP Technologies is an outstanding piece of work, reflecting much of Mark Miller's exceptional knowledge of voice and data communications systems and multi-protocol networks. He is, in fact and without question, one of the leading experts in the field of network design, analysis and troubleshooting across the LAN, MAN and WAN domains. And he is a leading authority on ATM, Frame Relay and the TCP/IP protocol suite ... and their meaningful applications.

The value of all that expertise is much greater value, of course, if it can be shared effectively with others. Mark Miller's considerable skills as an author have been honed in a dozen or so previous books, and are well demonstrated in this excellent work. The information is well organized and clearly stated, and is supported with numerous graphics. There are numerous appendixes, including a most helpful glossary. The work also is very well indexed, which I consider to be extremely important for future reference.

As a technologist, I can appreciate the accuracy of the information contained in this book. As a consultant, I can appreciate its integrity. As an author, I can appreciate the care with which the subject matter has been researched, the way it has been organized, and the thoroughly understandable manner in which it is presented. When I need to research a technical topic for a book, article or column I am writing, or for a consulting project, I generally skip past the several hundred other references on my shelf and reach for one of Mark Miller's books. When the topic is VoIP, I reach for this one first. I recommend that you do the same.

this is one of the perfect books that I have about 'how to teach phonics to young learners' , I'm a teacher, and I really benefit from this book which provides strategies and activities to teach children. In addtion, it includes methods for teachers to follow up and concern while teaching phonics.