From here to utility - melding phonetic insight with speech technology

It is the twelfth-century in Japan, and a nobleman has died a violent death. A magistrate is charged with establishing the identity of the killer and delineating the sequence of events leading up to the murder. During the formal hearing several witnesses are called to testify ‐ the victim’s wife, the accused (a notorious bandit), a woodsman and the victim himself (through a spirit medium). Each witness provides a singular account of the man’s death. They agree on but a single fact ‐ that the nobleman is, indeed, dead. How he died and by whose hand are very much in dispute.

[1]  Steven Greenberg,et al.  Vowel height is intimately associated with stress accent in spontaneous american English discourse , 2001, INTERSPEECH.

[2]  Steven Greenberg,et al.  Recognition in a new key-towards a science of spoken language , 1998, Proceedings of the 1998 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, ICASSP '98 (Cat. No.98CH36181).

[3]  A. C. Gimson,et al.  An introduction to the pronunciation of English , 1991 .

[4]  M. Beckman.  Stress And Non-Stress Accent , 1986 .

[5]  Harvey Fletcher,et al.  My work with Millikan on the oil‐drop experiment , 1982 .

[6]  Harvey b. Fletcher,et al.  Speech and hearing in communication , 1953 .

[7]  Konstantinos Koumpis,et al.  The Role of Prosody in a Voicemail Summarization System , 2001 .

[8]  D. Fry.  Experiments in the Perception of Stress , 1958 .

[9]  F. L. Sack.  English Word-Stress , 1969 .

[10]  G. Békésy,et al.  Experiments in Hearing , 1963 .

[11]  M. Halle,et al.  Preliminaries to Speech Analysis: The Distinctive Features and Their Correlates , 1961 .

[12]  Mirjam Wester,et al.  An elitist approach to articulatory-acoustic feature classification , 2001, INTERSPEECH.

[13]  Steven Greenberg,et al.  LINGUISTIC DISSECTION OF SWITCHBOARD-CORPUS AUTOMATIC SPEECH RECOGNITION SYSTEMS , 2000 .

[14]  Steven Greenberg,et al.  Speaking in shorthand - A syllable-centric perspective for understanding pronunciation variation , 1999, Speech Commun..

[15]  S. Greenberg,et al.  Automatic Detection of Prosodic Stress in American English Discourse , 2000 .

[16]  Lawrence K. Saul,et al.  A statistical model for robust integration of narrowband cues in speech , 2001, Comput. Speech Lang..

[17]  P. Ladefoged.  A course in phonetics , 1975 .

[18]  B. Lindblom.  Spectrographic Study of Vowel Reduction , 1963 .

[19]  I. Lehiste.  chapter 7 – Suprasegmental Features of Speech , 1976 .

[20]  Jeremy Bernstein,et al.  Three Degrees Above Zero: Bell Labs in the Information Age , 1985 .

[21]  Steven Greenberg,et al.  The Relation Between Stress Accent and Pronunciation Variation in Spontaneous American English Discourse , 2002 .

[22]  P. Coleman,et al.  Experiments in hearing , 1961 .

[23]  Katrin Kirchhoff,et al.  Robust speech recognition using articulatory information , 1998 .

[24]  Laura Ries,et al.  The 22 Immutable Laws of Branding , 1998 .

[25]  Björn Lindblom,et al.  Explaining Phonetic Variation: A Sketch of the H&H Theory , 1990 .

[26]  S. Öhman.  Coarticulation in VCV Utterances: Spectrographic Measurements , 1966 .

[27]  J. Weiner,et al.  The Beak of the Finch , 1997, Annals of Internal Medicine.

[28]  R. Cole,et al.  TELEPHONE SPEECH CORPUS DEVELOPMENT AT CSLU , 1998 .

[29]  M. Kendall,et al.  The Logic of Scientific Discovery. , 1959 .

[30]  John J. Godfrey,et al.  SWITCHBOARD: telephone speech corpus for research and development , 1992, [Proceedings] ICASSP-92: 1992 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing.

[31]  Steven Greenberg.  Whither Speech Technology? - A Twenty-First Century Perspective , 2001 .

[32]  Karl R. Popper.  The Logic of Scientific Discovery. , 1977 .

[33]  Steven Greenberg,et al.  PROSODIC STRESS REVISITED: REASSESSING THE ROLE OF FUNDAMENTAL FREQUENCY , 2000 .