Fundamentals of Speech Recognition

A theoretical, technical description of the basic knowledge and ideas that constitute a modern system for speech recognition by machine. The book covers production, perception and acoustic-phonetic characterization of the speech signal, signal processing recognition, pattern comparison techniques, speech recognition system and analysis methods for speech design and implementation, theory and implementation of hidden Markov models, speech recognition based on connected word models, large vocabulary continuous speech recognition and task-oriented application of automatic speech recognition.