LECTURE 06: PHONETICS AND PHONOLOGY

• Objectives:
  
  
  • Linguistics 101
    
    
  • Understand the relationship between acoustic models of speech production physiology and linguistic models of language
    
    
  • Introduce potential acoustic units for our speech recognition system
    
    
  • Understand how linguistic structure influences our approaches to speech recognition

Note that this lecture is primarily based on material from the course textbook:

X. Huang, A. Acero, and H.W. Hon, Spoken Language Processing - A Guide to Theory, Algorithm, and System Development, Prentice Hall, Upper Saddle River, New Jersey, USA, ISBN: 0-13-022616-5, 2001.

In addition, information from:

J. Deller, et. al., Discrete-Time Processing of Speech Signals, MacMillan Publishing Co., ISBN: 0-7803-5386-2, 2000.

has been used.