{"product_id":"9780470517048","title":"Distant Speech Recognition","description":"\u003ch1\u003eDistant Speech Recognition\u003c\/h1\u003e\u003ch3\u003eMatthias Woelfel | John McDonough\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cb\u003eTechnology \u0026amp; Engineering \/ Electronics \/ General\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eA complete overview of distant automatic speech recognition\u003c\/b\u003e  \u003cp\u003eThe performance of conventional Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) systems degrades dramatically as soon as the microphone is moved away from the mouth of the speaker. This is due to a broad variety of effects such as background noise, overlapping speech from other speakers, and reverberation. While traditional ASR systems underperform for speech captured with far-field sensors, there are a number of novel techniques within the recognition system as well as techniques developed in other areas of signal processing that can mitigate the deleterious effects of noise and reverberation, as well as separating speech from overlapping speakers.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eDistant Speech Recognition\u003c\/i\u003epresents a contemporary and comprehensive description of both theoretic abstraction and practical issues inherent in the distant ASR problem.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eKey Features:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003eCovers the entire topic of distant ASR and offers practical solutions to overcome the problems related to it\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eProvides documentation and sample scripts to enable readers to construct state-of-the-art distant speech recognition systems\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eGives relevant background information in acoustics and filter techniques,\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eExplains the extraction and enhancement of classification relevant speech features\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eDescribes maximum likelihood as well as discriminative parameter estimation, and maximum likelihood normalization techniques\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eDiscusses the use of multi-microphone configurations for speaker tracking and channel combination\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003ePresents several applications of the methods and technologies described in this book\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eAccompanying website with open source software and tools to construct state-of-the-art distant speech recognition systems\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e \u003cp\u003eThis reference will be an invaluable resource for researchers, developers, engineers and other professionals, as well as advanced students in speech technology, signal processing, acoustics, statistics and artificial intelligence fields.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e \u003cb\u003eMatthias Wölfel\u003c\/b\u003e will finish his Ph.D on far-field speech recognition in the middle of 2007. He has given seminars in Speech and Robust Speech Recognition and has published more than 25 papers in this field. He has been involved in two European research projects on distant speech recognition: FAME and CHIL. He has written extensive sections of source code of speech enhancement, spectral estimation and feature extraction for automatic recognition, and has participated in NIST Rich Transcription evaluations with focus on far-field speech.  \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJohn McDonough\u003c\/b\u003e holds a Ph.D. in electrical and computer engineering from the Johns Hopkins Univerity. He has taught the courses \u003ci\u003eMan-Machine Communication\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eMicrophone Arrays: Gateway to Hands Free Automatic Speech Recognition\u003c\/i\u003e at the University of Karlsruhe for five years. He has published dozens of conference and journal articles, and written complete software toolkits for source localization, beamforming and automatic speech recognition. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ctable\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePublication Date: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e02 June 2009\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eWiley\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eImprint: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eWiley\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eISBN-13: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e9780470517048\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eFormat: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eHardback\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePage Count: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e594\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eWeight (oz): \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e40.32\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003c\/table\u003e","brand":"Wiley","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44314207879308,"sku":"9780470517048","price":132.26,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0710\/9545\/1788\/files\/9780470517048_f0fbf834-4274-4f5e-b598-2e1468d6e201.jpg?v=1780201934","url":"https:\/\/lateknightbooks.com\/products\/9780470517048","provider":"Late Knight Books and Services, LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}