LIN 1300 Chapter Notes - Chapter 16: Phoneme, Speech Perception, Speech Synthesis
10 Nov 2016
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Both computers and people can be considered information processing systems. A number of the processing tasks that humans carry out with language can be automated to some degree on a computer: Translating from one language to another etc. It isn"t currently possible to give machines the full conversational skills of a human, as human language processing is so complex. Programming a computer to work with language (either written or spoken) can be viewed as creating a limited model of language processing. Computers are ideal for testing linguists" theories about language processing. We can get a better idea of how good our model of those linguistic phenomena are. There are many practical applications to giving computers language processing ability. We benefit from the advances in this field. Speech synthesis: is the use of a machine, usually a computer, to produce human-like speech. Playing prerecorded utterances and phrases (canned speech) Piecing together smaller recorded units of speeches into new utterances.
