Speech and Language Technologies

"Due to the recent availability of large bodies of text and speech in electronic form, data-based research of all kinds has increased dramatically in areas such as computational linguistics and language engineering, speech, humanities computing, psycho-linguistics, and information retrieval. This book is intended to explore the methodologies and technologies that are emerging as a result of this work. The book intended for use as teaching materials on undergraduate and postgraduate speech acoustics and experimental phonetics courses; also aimed at researchers from phonetics, linguistics, computer science, psychology and engineering.