About this Research Topic
Speech and language are interconnected. With speech, we can convey our intention through our vocal apparatus. Yet, the production of speech itself requires an understanding of the language. Language understanding forms early when the child's brain connects the perceived speech sounds and other sensory information correlated to events. Daily, we perform speech production, recognition, and language understanding without consciously making a switch and with seamless transitions. Further, enhancing our utilization of speech and language through machine processing has also been an integral part of our life within the last three decades. These advancements in speech and language processing have brought us here, where we can do many extraordinary things while enriching our communication, interactions, and daily activities.
This collection, 'Speech and Language Processing' welcomes articles on the advancements of science and technology of speech production, recognition, analysis, enhancement, and language understanding. Speech production covers the spectrum of synthesis and manipulation of the speech signal. Speech recognition covers the method of generation of higher-level information from the speech signal, such as transcription, speaker and language recognition, speaker diarization, and so on. Speech analysis, closely related to both production and recognition, deals with the extraction of condensed features from the speech signal and speech signal compression as in speech coding mechanisms. Speech enhancement covers the techniques in speech signal modification to obtain refined characteristics, such as noise reduction, source separation, and so on. Lastly, language understanding covers the broad area of natural language processing that can also be coupled with speech processing techniques, for example, to obtain an end-to-end cyclic approach from speech perception, acquisition, language learning and translation, production and recognition, to automatic dialogue systems. The goal of this Research Topic is to provide a space for new ideas and inventions, as well as comprehensive analysis and evaluations of recent techniques related to the broad spectrum of speech and language processing area.
As per the above background and goal, the scope of this Research Topic covers the range of speech and language processing subjects, which may include, but are not limited to:
• Automatic speech recognition
• Speech synthesis and voice conversion
• Speech coding, analysis, and enhancement
• Speaker and language recognition
• Language modeling
• Speech-to-speech and automatic machine translations
• Spoken language understanding and summarization
• Spoken dialogue systems
• Paralinguistics modeling
• Speech and vocal disorders
• Speech perception and acquisition
• Multimodal speech and language modeling
• Data resources and evaluation systems
This collection, 'Speech and Language Processing' welcomes articles on the advancements of science and technology of speech production, recognition, analysis, enhancement, and language understanding. Speech production covers the spectrum of synthesis and manipulation of the speech signal. Speech recognition covers the method of generation of higher-level information from the speech signal, such as transcription, speaker and language recognition, speaker diarization, and so on. Speech analysis, closely related to both production and recognition, deals with the extraction of condensed features from the speech signal and speech signal compression as in speech coding mechanisms. Speech enhancement covers the techniques in speech signal modification to obtain refined characteristics, such as noise reduction, source separation, and so on. Lastly, language understanding covers the broad area of natural language processing that can also be coupled with speech processing techniques, for example, to obtain an end-to-end cyclic approach from speech perception, acquisition, language learning and translation, production and recognition, to automatic dialogue systems. The goal of this Research Topic is to provide a space for new ideas and inventions, as well as comprehensive analysis and evaluations of recent techniques related to the broad spectrum of speech and language processing area.
As per the above background and goal, the scope of this Research Topic covers the range of speech and language processing subjects, which may include, but are not limited to:
• Automatic speech recognition
• Speech synthesis and voice conversion
• Speech coding, analysis, and enhancement
• Speaker and language recognition
• Language modeling
• Speech-to-speech and automatic machine translations
• Spoken language understanding and summarization
• Spoken dialogue systems
• Paralinguistics modeling
• Speech and vocal disorders
• Speech perception and acquisition
• Multimodal speech and language modeling
• Data resources and evaluation systems
Keywords: Speech and Language Processing, Speech Synthesis, Speech Recognition, Voice Conversion, Speech Analysis, Speech Coding, Speech Enhancement, Language Modeling, Machine Translation, Spoken Language Understanding, Spoken Dialogue System, Paralinguistics
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