Speech Technology is a field under the Research areas in Computer Science dealing with the effective human-computer interaction. This is a technology, which has been successfully implemented and also developed into better versions for the generations of users.
Areas in Speech Technology
Speech Technology includes the following components:
- Speech synthesis : Speech synthesis is the process by which human speech is artificially produced and for this purpose the speech synthesizer is used.
- Speech recognition : Speech Recognition is the process of converting a signal of speech into a series of words for which algorithm is used. It is also called automatic speech recognition or computer speech recognition.
- Speaker recognition : Speaker recognition is the process of the recognition of people by their voices and it follows from speech recognition. Speech Recognition and Speaker recognition are two different terminologies and should not be confused.
- Speaker verification : This is an important technology, which is implemented by organizations having concerns about their security. It is verifying the speaker with the help of password, PIN and his voice.
- Speech compression : This includes speech encoding and Time-compressed speech. Both these are technologies used to compress the voice speech for the purpose of storage and playback respectively.
- Multimodal interaction : This is an important field of research, which involves human computer interaction. It aims at increasing the number of communication points between the computer and the user, beyond the traditional keyboard and the mouse.
Research in Speech Technology includes an in-depth analysis into all these fields for greater benefits of the users.
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