Some day, machines that recognise speech will be commonplace. People will talk to computers, typewriters, toys, TV sets, household appliances, cars, door locks and wrist-watches. Before looking at the signal processing and pattern processing that will be the basis of the next generation of automatic speech-recognition systems, we consider the nature of the signal that these devices will have to deal with.

Inspec keywords: speech recognition; signal processing

Other keywords: pattern processing; automatic speech recognition systems; advanced signal processing

Subjects: Speech recognition and synthesis