Applications of Speech

Processing
By
Arun Baalaaji S
What is Speech Processing?

Study of speech signals and the processing methods.

Analog signal which is converted to digital for storage.
Processing done in digital form of the signal.
Special case of DSP
Major applications: Speech Recognition and Speech
Synthesis
Why Speech Processing?
Purpose of speech processing:
To understand speech as a means of communication;
To represent speech for transmission and reproduction;
To analyze speech for automatic recognition and extraction
of information
To discover some physiological characteristics of the talker
Aspects of Digital Speech Processing
1. Speech Acquisition
2. Speech Manipulation
3. Speech Storage
4. Speech Transfer
5. Output of signal
Applications of Speech Processing
Speech recognition
Ex: Google Assistant, Siri, Cortana,etc.

Speech understanding:
Ex:Speech Translation

Speech Synthesis
Ex: Voice of Siri and Google Assistant
Contd..
Text prediction

Automatic summarization

Text Mining

Voice based Authentication system

Speech Coding
Block diagram of Speech Recognition
Speech Synthesis

Synthesis of Speech is the process of generating a speech

signal using computational means for effective human machine
interactions.
Text prediction
Speed up word processing
Facilitate text dictation
At lexical level, already seen in SMS
More sophisticated , might be based on corpus of previously seen texts
Especially useful in repeated tasks
Translation memory
Authoring memory

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Speech Coding
Compress a Speech File
Why not use standard compression techniques?

MP3 Format
Perceptual Coding
Exploits sensory organ biases
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