Multilingual Speech Processing

Speech processing refers to the means through which a computer can comprehend spoken language to commence a sequence of events. Voice dialing in cell phones is a very successful example of speech recognition. A consumer can now dial home by saying that very word. Security has also benefited from this spectacular technology with voice activated locking mechanisms. This book is an extensive examination of speech processing today and its very exciting future. With its global authorship, no one language is highlighted. Instead the editors focus the book on discussing the theory and practice of speech processing as a whole. This includes human/human and human/computer interfaces, auto language detection, computational support of input and output of all languages. The state-of-the-art research illuminated in this volume will make possible an automated home of the future in which you only say the word it will be done.