MAS.632 Conversational Computer Systems - MIT OpenCourseWare

vi VOICE COMMUNICATION WITH COMPUTERS
THE SPEECH SOUNDS 24
Vowels 25
Consonants 26
Liquids and Glides 28
Acoustic Features of Phonemes 28
HEARING 28
Auditory System 29
Localization of Sounds 31
Psychoacoustics 33
SUMMARY 34
FURTHER READING 35
Chapter 3. Speech Coding 36
SAMPLING AND QUANTIZATION 37
SPEECH-CODING ALGORITHMS 44
Waveform Coders 44
Source Coders 51
CODER CONSIDERATIONS 53
Intelligibility 54
Editing 54
Silence Removal 55
Time Scaling 57
Robustness 58
SUMMARY 59
FURTHER READING 59
Chapter 4. Applications and Editing of Stored Voice 60
TAXONOMY OF VOICE OUTPUT APPLICATIONS 61
Playback-Only Applications 61
Interactive Record and Playback Applications 62
Dictation 63
Voice as a Document Type 64
VOICE IN INTERACTIVE DOCUMENTS 65