Articulation and intelligibility

• Main Author: Allen, J. B., 1942-
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: San Rafael, Calif. (1537 Fourth Street, San Rafael, CA 94901 USA) : Morgan & Claypool Publishers, c2005.
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Series: Synthesis lectures on speech and audio processing (Online), #[1].
• Subjects: Speech perception > Mathematics.; Speech perception > Research > History.; Speech, Intelligibility of.
• Online Access: View fulltext via EzAccess

Immediately following the Second World War, between 1947 and 1955, several classic papers quantified the fundamentals of human speech information processing and recognition. In 1947 French and Steinberg published their classic study on the articulation index. In 1948 Claude Shannon published his fam...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction
• Problem statement
• Basic definitions and abbreviations
• Modeling HSR Outline
• Articulation
• Fletcher and Galt (1950)
• French and Steinberg (1947)
• Effects of chance and context
• Miller et al circa 1947-2001
• Transformation from the wideband SNR to the AI
• Singular value decompositions of the AM symmetric form
• Validation of the AI
• Criticisms of articulation models
• Intelligibility
• Boothroyd (1968-2002)
• Bronkhorst et al (1993)
• Truncation experiments and coarticulation, Furui (1986)
• Van Petten et al (1999)
• Discussion with historical context
• ASR versus HSR.