Recent Advances in Speech Understanding and Dialog Systems -

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Sommaire:
1: Speech Coding and Segmentation.- Invited Papers.- Recent Advances in Speech Coding.- Acoustic-Phonetic Decoding of Speech.- Knowledge-Based Approaches in Acoustic-Phonetic Decoding of Speech.- The Use of Prosodic Parameters in Automatic Speech Recognition.- Contributed Papers.- Prosodie Features in German Speech: Stress Assignment by Man and Machine.- Recognition of Speech Using Temporal Decomposition.- LongTerm Analysis-Synthesis of Speech by Non- Stationary AR Methods.- Using Contextual Information in View of Formant Speech Analysis Improvement.- A Speech Recognition Strategy Based on Making Acoustic Evidence and Phonetic Knowledge Explicit.- On Finding Objects in Spectrograms: A Multiscale Relaxation Labelling Approach.- Phonetic Segmentation Using Psychoacoustic Speech Parameters.- Morphological Representation of Speech Knowledge for Automatic Speech Recognition Systems.- Speaker-Independent Automatic Recognition of Plosive Sound in Letters and Digits.- A Real-Time Auditory Model: Description and Applications in an ASR Acoustic-Phonetic Front End.- A New Phonematic Approach to Speech Recognition.- Primary Perceptual Units in Word Recognition.- Context-Dependent Phone Markov Models for Speech Recognition.- Speech Recognition Based on Speech Units.- 2: Word Recognition.- Invited Papers.- Mathematical Foundations of Hidden Markov Models.- Computer Recognition of Spoken Letters and Digits.- Recognition of Words in Very Large Vocabulary.- Contributed Papers.- Isolated Word Recognition Using Hidden Markov Models.- Isolated Digit Recognition Using the Multi-Layer Perceptron.- Use of Procedural Knowledge for Spoken Letters and Digits Recognition.- Real-Time Large Vocabulary Word Recognition via Diphone Spotting and Multiprocessor Implementation.- Speech Recognition WithDifficult Dictionaries.- Recent Results on the Application of a Metric-Space Search Algorithm (AESA) to Multispeaker Data.- Robust Features for Word Recognition.- Statistical Analysis of Left-to-Right Parser for Word-Hypothesing.- Overview of Speech Recognition in the 'SPICOS' System.- An Experimental Environment for Generating Word Hypotheses in Continuous Speech.- Application of the Error Correcting Grammatical Inference Method (ECGI)to Multi-Speaker Isolated Word Recognition.- Multi-Speaker Experiments With the Morphic Generator Grammatical Inference Methodology.- A New Approach to Template Selection for Speaker Independent Word Recognition.- Dynamic Spectral Adaptation of Automatic Speech Recognizers to New Speakers.- Towards Speaker-Independent Continuous Speech Recognition.- Evaluating Speech Recognizers and Data Bases.- 3:Linguistic Processing.- Invited Papers.- On-Line Interpretation in Speech Understanding and Dialogue Systems.- Semantic Processing in Speech Understanding.- Knowledge Based Systems for Speech Understanding.- Contributed Papers.- Recognition of Speaker-Dependent Continuous Speech with KEAL-NEVEZH.- Modification of Earley's Algorithm for Speech Recognition.- Expectation-Based Speech Recognition.- Merging Acoustics and Linguistics in Speech Understanding.- Using Semantic and Pragmatic Knowledge for the Interpretation of Syntactic Constituents.- Tksk-Oriented Dialogue Processing in Human-Computer Voice Communication.- Experimentation in the Specification of an Oral Dialogue.- List of Participants.- Author Index.