Speech recognition is the act of a computer listening to what you are saying and converting it to written text. This may seem like a very simple task to do, knowing that computers are astonishingly fast and powerful but this is quite the contrary. Most recognition software can achieve between 98% to 99% accuracy if operated under optimal conditions. Optimal conditions assume that users have speech characteristics which match the training data, can achieve proper speaker adaptation, and work in a clean noise environment (e.g. quiet office or laboratory space). The two essential steps that a speech recognition system must accomplish are training and decoding. There are two classes of speech recognition, one called speaker independent, which has a small vocabulary of words/commands, and the other called speaker dependent, which has a very large vocabulary but must be trained for each and every user. This training step might involve a user reading a book aloud to the computer, while the system is following along to the words that are being enunciated. It can also involve the input of prerecorded speech and transcribing the audio to the corresponding text word. The speaker independent system's training involves the collecting of different commands and configuring them for different accents and for the differences in the male and female voice, slang, acronyms, articulation in the words, and temporal non-uniformity. An intriguing hurdle that speech recognition must overcome is homonyms, which are words that have sound the same but have different meanings. The common solution to this problem is understanding the context the possible words will be used and picking the corresponding word. This solution can also be used in all forms o... ... middle of paper ... ...of the voice. One recent application of voice recognition technology in entertainment is the horror movie Last Call. When viewers buy their tickets they are asked to provide their cell phone number. Before the movie starts the database of phone numbers for the movie showing are sent to to the company. Sometime, during the movie, an audience member’s cellular phone will ring, and it is up to this audience member to give the character on screen directions. Astonishingly the movie is controlled by a random viewers voice. Also the software has to overcome the loud background noise of the movie. Voice recognition have even reached the video game market. Their defining feature is that the player controls the game entirely by using a microphone to speak commands to the on-screen characters. the commands are interpreted by the in-game voice recognition software.
Phonemic Awareness is when a person is able to notice, think about, and work with the individual sounds in words. In the article Tell Me About Fred’s Fat foot Again, Geri Murry did a study on phoneme awareness. It started with Geri working with a four year old on a tongue tickler, getting her to manipulate the sounds. Geri also made the learning fun, relatable, and intriguing to get the little girl Jenny interested in the lesson. Then, the article went into detail over four things that should be included in phonemic awareness lesson plans. The first thing is to focus on the individual phoneme. Second, make the phoneme memorable. To help out with making the phenome stand out, the article suggested analogies, illustrations, gestures, graphemes,
Automatic speech recognition is the most successful and accurate of these applications. It is currently making a use of a technique called “shadowing” or sometimes called “voicewriting.” Rather than have the speaker’s speech directly transcribed by the system, a hearing person whose speech is well-trained to an ASR system repeats the words being spoken.
Imagine living during the 1960’s when the nation was divided by segregation. The only way to express your ideas, beliefs, and thoughts during that time was through words. Famous Civil Rights activists such as, Dr.Martin Luther King Jr., inspired many with his wise words and empowering speeches. Times when many felt unheard or invisible, words were there as tranquilness and an ataraxia. Words have the power to provoke, calm, or inspire by motivating others to take action in what they believe in.
Hearing loss is often overlooked because our hearing is an invisible sense that is always expected to be in action. Yet, there are people everywhere that suffer from the effects of hearing loss. It is important to study and understand all aspects of the many different types and reasons for hearing loss. The loss of this particular sense can be socially debilitating. It can affect the communication skills of the person, not only in receiving information, but also in giving the correct response. This paper focuses primarily on hearing loss in the elderly. One thing that affects older individuals' communication is the difficulty they often experience when recognizing time compressed speech. Time compressed speech involves fast and unclear conversational speech. Many older listeners can detect the sound of the speech being spoken, but it is still unclear (Pichora-Fuller, 2000). In order to help with diagnosis and rehabilitation, we need to understand why speech is unclear even when it is audible. The answer to that question would also help in the development of hearing aids and other communication devices. Also, as we come to understand the reasoning behind this question and as we become more knowledgeable about what older adults can and cannot hear, we can better accommodate them in our day to day interactions.
...speaker and the listener. The student can store often used responses, and prepare anticipated answers prior to situations where he will be meeting with those less familiar with his speech capabilities. By implementing this type of device, the student has become more confident and can communicate appropriately for a student his age. In this instance, the integration of technology into the learning environment may make a difference as to whether the student is employable or overlooked due to the inability to communicate well on the job.
For the informative speech I chose to inform my audience about Muncie Indiana. I did this topic to get the attention of ball state students, and make them realize what an awesome place Muncie Indiana really is. I informed them on the history of Muncie to hopefully encourage them to get more involved in the community outside of classes. I feel that the students learned a lot about Muncie they would have never known. I do believe could have done a better job at making in more intriguing and kept their attention all the way through my speech. If I would have done this better I would have been able to sale the idea getting more involved with the city that brought thousands of students their college education.
Phonemic Awareness is very important part of literacy. Phonemic awareness includes sounds of a word, the breakdown of words into sounds. It includes rhyming and alliteration, isolation, counting words in sentences, syllables and phonemes, blending words, segmenting, and manipulating.
Delgado, R & Kobayashi, T 2011. Proceedings of the Paralinguistic Information and its Integration in Spoken Dialogue Systems Workshop. 1st ed. Springer.
Imagine asking your computer to do something in the same way you would ask a friend to do it. Without having to memorize special commands that only it could understand. For computer scientists this has been an ambitious goal; that can further simplify computers. Artificial Intelligence, a system that can mimic human intelligence by performing task that usually only a human can do, usually has to use a form of natural language processing. Natural language processing, a sub-field of computer science and artificial intelligence, concerns the successfully interaction between a computer and a human. Currently one of the best examples of A.I.(Artificial Intelligence) is IBM 's Watson. A machine that gained popularity after appearing on the show
This is similar to the life of any computer. Humans gain information through the senses. Computers gain similar information through a video camera, a microphone, a touch pad or screen, and it is even possible for computers to analyze scents and chemicals. Humans also gain information through books, other people, and even computers, all of which computers can access through software, interfacing, and modems. For the past year, speech recognition software products have become mainstream(Lyons,176).
A modern example would include speech recognition within cellular devices. Skype has also produced intelligence that can translate speech in record time. Other examples include self-driving cars, programs that can identify objects in videos, and robotic canines that can imitate life-like behavior from a real dog. There has been an exponential spike in the capability of computer systems and the demand for professionals who can make self-identifying and operating robotics conceivable. The boundaries between science and science fiction are being presented in front of societies’ eyes. As much as society thinks the technology is not prevalent today, the capability and prototypes are present.
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Internet Voice, also known as Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP), is a technology that allows you to make regular telephone calls using a dial up or broadband internet connection instead of a regular phone line. Some services using VoIP may only allow you to call other people using the same service, bu...
than one way. Natural languages are ambiguous, so computers are not able to understand language the way people do.
Computers are now being used to help the blind with a voice synthesizer that tells them what they are typing or what they are trying to see on the screen. According to Palmer (1999),"CCS builds and sells complete handicapped accessible packages, as well as individual products like speech synthesizes voice cards and screen enlargement software. The screen enlargement programs increase type size to aid people who are partially impaired. Those with total blindness use synthesizers both hardware and software versions that read what's on the screen. They work by translating ASCI symbols, the series of code each letter and graphic is assigned into voice transmissions.