15th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (ICPhS-15)Barcelona, Spain |
This paper deals with the relation of acoustic-phonetic knowledge and
its role in automatic speech recognition. Two applications of acoustic-phonetic
knowledge are considered in more detail: 1) coarticulation, i.e. the
context dependency of the acoustic realizations of phonemes, and 2)
speaker adaptation by vocal tract length normalization.
About 25
years ago for each of these two applications, there were already proposals
for modelling these types of acoustic-phonetic dependencies. However,
in order to successfully exploit these dependencies for automatic speech
recognition, the lesson we learned is that a very careful integration
of these dependencies into the statistical approach is required.
Bibliographic reference. Ney, Hermann (2003): "Acoustic-phonetic knowledge and statistics in automatic speech recognition", In ICPhS-15, 59-62.