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1、SpeechRecognitionVictorZue,RonCole,&WayneWardMITLaboratoryforComputerScience,Cambridge,Massachusetts,USAOregonGraduateInstituteofScience&Technology,Portland,Oregon,USACarnegieMellonUniversity,Pittsburgh,Pennsylvania,USA1DefiningtheProblemSpeechrecogni
2、tionistheprocessofconvertinganacousticsignal,capturedbyamicrophoneoratelephone,toasetofwords.Therecognizedwordscanbethefinalresults,asforapplicationssuchascommands&control,dataentry,anddocumentpreparation.Theycanalsoserveastheinputtofurtherlinguisticp
3、rocessinginordertoachievespeechunderstanding,asubjectcoveredinsection.Speechrecognitionsystemscanbecharacterizedbymanyparameters,someofthemoreimportantofwhichareshowninFigure.Anisolated-wordspeechrecognitionsystemrequiresthatthespeakerpausebrieflybetw
4、eenwords,whereasacontinuousspeechrecognitionsystemdoesnot.Spontaneous,orextemporaneouslygenerated,speechcontainsdisfluencies,andismuchmoredifficulttorecognizethanspeechreadfromscript.Somesystemsrequirespeakerenrollment---ausermustprovidesamplesofhisor
5、herspeechbeforeusingthem,whereasothersystemsaresaidtobespeaker-independent,inthatnoenrollmentisnecessary.Someoftheotherparametersdependonthespecifictask.Recognitionisgenerallymoredifficultwhenvocabulariesarelargeorhavemanysimilar-soundingwords.Whenspe
6、echisproducedinasequenceofwords,languagemodelsorartificialgrammarsareusedtorestrictthecombinationofwords.Thesimplestlanguagemodelcanbespecifiedasafinite-statenetwork,wherethepermissiblewordsfollowingeachwordaregivenexplicitly.Moregenerallanguagemodels
7、approximatingnaturallanguagearespecifiedintermsofacontext-sensitivegrammar.Onepopularmeasureofthedifficultyofthetask,combiningthevocabularysizeandthelanguagemodel,isperplexity,looselydefinedasthegeometricmeanofthenumberofwordsthatcanfollowawordafterth
8、elanguagemodelhasbeenapplied(seesectionforadiscussionoflanguagemodelingingeneralandperplexityinparticular).Finally,therearesomeexternalparametersthatcanaffectspeechrecognitionsystemperformance,includingthecharacteristicsoftheenvironmentalnoise