LIN 1300 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Speech Recognition, Transaction Language 1, Language Processing In The Brain
9 Dec 2016
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Massive spread of digital communication e. g computer, internet, im, other digital media . Many of the processing tasks carried out by humans with language can be automated: Language processing is complex and it is not possible to give a machine the full conversational skills of a human being (yet) The use of a machine, usually a computer, to produce human like speech. Can be produced by: piecing together small bits of pre-recorded speech (= canned speech ) e. g voicemail, creating speech from scratch (= synthesized speech ) e. g siri. Should be intelligible (can understand it) and sound natural. Modern uses: gps, bus routes, in cars, automated grocery checkout . Process through which a computer takes the sounds of speech and converts them into words of a particular language. Modern uses: siri, voicemail to text, calling a customer service agency. Types can be categorized according to several parameters. Speaker enrollment ( e. g only recognize programmed voice.
