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AERFAI Summer School on New Trends in Pattern Recognition for Language Technologies

Speech production models for automatic speech recognition

author: Richard Rose, Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, McGill University
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0:00 Speech Production Models in ASR
1:51 Outline
3:22 Speech Production Models
4:26 Motivating Articulatory-Based Models for ASR
5:09 The Organization of Articulatory Movements
8:24 Reduced Variability Through Critical Articulators
11:41 Evidence for Usefulness of Articulatory Information
14:04 “Partial” Direct Measurements - Visual Information
14:43 Evidence for Usefulness of Articulatory Information
17:17 Motivating Articulatory-Based Models for ASR
18:37 Acoustic to Vocal Tract Area Mapping
21:09 - Questions
28:12 Speech Production Models: Review of Speech Production and Distinctive Features
28:41 A Brief Review of Distinctive Features
29:48 Speech Production – Distinctive Features - 1
31:42 Speech Production – Distinctive Features - 2
32:20 Speech Production – Distinctive Features - 3
33:10 Classes of Sounds: Vowels
34:06 - Questions
36:38 Classes of Sounds: Consonants
37:35 Example: Distinctive Features used to Define Phonological Rules for Morphologically Related Words
41:32 Phonology: From Phonemes to Spoken Language
43:37 Speech Production Models: Sounds to Words – Problems with Phonemic Pronunciation Dictionaries
44:01 Sounds to Words – Problems with Dictionaries
46:48 Problems with Dictionaries
49:35 Impact of Canonical Phonemic Baseforms - 1
52:13 Impact of Canonical Phonemic Baseforms - 2
53:56 - Questions
56:22 - Questions
56:48 Speech Production Models: The Role of Speech Production Models in Speech Perception
56:54 Connection Between Distinctive Features and Speech Perception
61:18 A Model of Human Speech Perception - Distinctive Features and Acoustic Landmarks
64:03 Landmark / Feature Based Model of Human Perception - 2
65:01 Exploiting Speech Production Models in ASR
66:42 Statistical Methods for Phonological Distinctive Feature (PDF) Detection
67:27 Phonological Distinctive Features (PDFs) for ASR - 1
70:12 - Questions
73:55 Phonological Distinctive Features (PDFs) for ASR - 3
75:25 Obtaining PDF’s from Surface Acoustic Measures
78:04 Phonological Distinctive Features (PDFs) for ASR - 4

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