EUROSPEECH '97
5th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology

Rhodes, Greece
September 22-25, 1997

Continuous Formant-Tracking Applied to Visual Representations of the Speech and Speech Recognition

Agustin Alvarez, Rafael Martinez, Victor Nieto, Victoria Rodellar, Pedro Gomez

Departamento de Arquitectura y Tecnologia de Sistemas Informaticos, Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Campus de Montegancedo, s/n, Boadilla del Monte, Madrid, Spain

Through the present paper, a methodology to create Visual Representations of Speech for Speech Perception Enhancement Applications, based on the use of a Continuous Formant- Tracking Algorithm, is presented. The specific mathematical and computational issues introduced for such treatment are given, and a specific case for Computer-Aided Language Learning oriented to the Phonetic Specificities of English for Spanish Speakers is also presented. This specific technique may also be used in statistically normalizing Speech Data for Speech Recognition Systems. In this context, an example of a Robust to Noise Speech Recognizer, which uses Eormant Dynamic Information is shown.

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Bibliographic reference.  Alvarez, Agustin / Martinez, Rafael / Nieto, Victor / Rodellar, Victoria / Gomez, Pedro (1997): "Continuous formant-tracking applied to visual representations of the speech and speech recognition", In EUROSPEECH-1997, 653-656.