Arabic Dialectical Speech Recognition in Mobile Communication Services

Speech Recognition, Techniques, Technology and Applications Digital speech processing is a major field in current research all over the world. In particular for automatic speech recognition (ASR), very significant achievements have been made since the first attempts of digit recognizers in the 1950's and 1960's when spectral resonances were determined by analogue filters and logical circuits. As Prof. Furui pointed out in his review on 50 years of automatic speech recognition at the 32nd IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), 2007, we may now see speech recognition systems in their 3.5th generation. Although there are many excellent systems for continuous speech recognition, speech translation and information extraction, ASR systems need to be improved for spontaneous speech. Furthermore, robustness under noisy conditions is still a goal that has not been achieved entirely if distant microphones are used for speech input. The automated recognition of emotion is another aspect in voice-driven systems that has gained much importance in recent years. For natural language understanding in general, and for the correct interpretation of a speaker's recognized words, such paralinguistic information may be used to improve future speech systems. There are several excellent texts books available to the reader. However, while these classic texts serve as fine introductions and references to the core mathematical ideas, they cannot hope to keep pace with the vast and diverse outpouring of new research papers. In contrast, this volume intends to gather together the most recent advances of speech recognition and synthesis research from around the world. This book aims to provide a particularly good way for experts in one aspect of the field to learn about advances made by their colleagues with different research interests. Editor: Dr. Vedran Kordic I-Tech Education and Publishing Kirchengasse 43/3 A-1070 Vienna, Austria, EU E-Mail: kordic@ars-journal.com http://www.books.i-techonline.com/srec.html Time Table Deadline for... Date Chapter proposal: 05.05.2008 Notification of Acceptance: 16.05.2008 Final Manuscripts: 25.07.2008 Publishing fee payment: Aug. 2008 Proof reading(s): Sept. 2008 Book is scheduled for Oct. 2008