The Integration of Phonetic Knowledge in Speech Technology

Foreword William J. Barry, Wim A. van Dommelen & Jaques Koreman / What is Phonetic Knowledge William A. Ainsworth / Can Phonetic Knowledge be Used to Improve the Performance of Speech Recognisers and Synthesisers? Anton Batliner and Bernd Möbius / Prosodic Models, Automatic Speech Understanding, and Speech Synthesis: Towards the Common Ground? Julie Carson-Berndsen and Michael Walsh / Phonetic Time Maps Heidi Christensen, Børge Lindberg and Ove Andersen / Introducing Phonetically Motivated, Heterogeneous Information into Automatic Speech Recognition Guillaume Gravier, Francois Yvon, Bruno Jacob and Frédéric Bimbot / Introducing Contextual Transcription Rules in Large Vocabulary Speech Recognition Steven Greenberg / From Here to Utility Moisés Pastor and Francisco Casacuberta / Pronunciation Modeling Jan P.H. van Santen / Phonetic Knowledge in Text-to-Speech Synthesis Helmer Strik / Is Phonetic Knowledge of Any Use for Speech Technology?