Language and Speech Processing

Joseph Mariani's research activities relate to language technology, multimodal human-machine communication, speech recognition, spoken language resources and evaluation. He was president of the European Language Resources Association (ELRA), president of the European (now International) Speech Communication Association (ISCA), a member of the board of the European Network on Language and Speech (ELSNET) and the coordinator of the AUF FRANCIL Network. He was the director of the LIMSI CNRS laboratory from 1989 to 2001, and the head of its "Human-Machine Communication" department. He is since 2001 director of the "Information and Communication Technologies" department at the French Ministry of Research.

Introduction (Joseph Mariani). Chapter 1. Speech analysis (Christophe d'Alessandro). Chapter 2. Speech coding (Gang Feng and Laurent Girin). Chapter 3. Speech synthesis (Olivier Boeffard and Christophe d'Alessandro). Chapter 4. Talking face synthesis (Thierry Guiard-Marigny). Chapter 5. Computational audio scene analysis (Alain de Cheveigne). Chapter 6. Speech recognition principles (Renato de Mori and Brigitte Bigi). Chapter 7. Speech recognition systems (Jean-Luc Gauvain and Lori F. Lamel). Chapter 8. Language identification (Martine Adda). Chapter 9. Speaker recognition (Frederic Bimbot). Chapter 10. Robust recognition methods (Jean-Paul Haton). Chapter 11. Multimodal speech (Jen-Luc Schwartz, Pierre Escudier and Pascal Teissier). Chapter 12. Speech in human-machine communication (Francoise Neel and Wolfgang Minker). Chapter 13. Speech in telecommunications (Laurent Courtois, Patrick Brisard and Christian Gagnoulet). List of Authors. Index.