Multilingual Speech Processing - Grand Format

Tanja Schultz and Katrin Kirchhoff have compiled a comprehensive overview of speech processing from a multilingual perspective. By taking this all-inclusive approach to speech processing, the editors have included theories, algorithme, and techniques that are required to support spoken input and output in a large variety of languages. This book presents a comprehensive introduction to research problems and solutions, both from a theoretical as well as a practical perspective, and highlights technology that incorporates the increasing necessity for multilingual applications in our global community.
Current challenges of speech processing and the feasibility of sharing data and system components across different languages guide contributors in their discussions of trends, prognoses and open research issues. This includes automatic speech recognition and speech synthesis, but also speech-to-speech translation, dialog systems, automatic language identification, and handling non-native speech. The book is complemented by an overview of multilingual resources, important research trends, and actual speech processing systems that are being deployed in multilingual human-human and human-machine interfaces.
Researchers and developers in industry and acadernia with diverse backgrounds but a common interest in speech processing will find an excellent reference in Multilingual Speech Processing. Key features : State-of-the-art research with a global perspective by authors from the USA, Asia, Europe, and South Africa ; The only comprehensive introduction to niultilingual speech processing currently available ; Detailed presentation of technological advances integral to security, financial, cellular and commercial applications.