Tuesday, February 17, 2009

Nonlinear Model of Speech Production

[Ref: Banbrook PhD thesis, Breen's article]

- Not paraphrased. - is as is from Banbrook's thesis..


The mechanism by which we produce speech is a complex ionteraction of several processes. the basic mechaniusm for producing any sound is to expel air from the lungs, using muscular action. the expelled air is forced through the larynx (Which is capable of producing two main categories of speech: voiced nad unvoiced.)


Voiced speech, or phonation, is produced by oscillating the

Phoneme - Structure





































Tuesday, February 3, 2009

Continuous Speech Recognition


The left side of this blog represents a nice example of why continuous speech recognition is so difficult. [Ref. Rodman R.D., "Computer Speech Technology," Artech House, Norwood, 1999].