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Book review: Speech Recognition by Machine by W. A. Ainsworth, (Peter Peregrines Ltd ., 1988)

Published: 01 November 1990 Publication History

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Ainsworth has set himself the ambitious goal of describing the theory and technology that form the basis of modern speech recognition. His is a surprisingly short book (only 206 pages) for such a broad topic. Initially, I was concerned that any attempt to cover so much material in so few pages would result in technical descriptions too superficial to be useful. I was therefore pleasantly surprised to find that Ainsworth has been able to achieve a good treatment of difficult topics with a minimum number of words. Although some very complex and important algorithms such as dynamic time warping and hidden Markov models could have benefited from a few more pages of description, Ainsworth has produced a brief and very useful survey of speech recognition technology.

Reference

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Rabiner, L. R. and Juang, B. H. (1986). "An Introduction to Hidden Markov Models," IEEE ASSP Magazine, January 1986, pp. 4--16.
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    cover image ACM SIGCHI Bulletin
    ACM SIGCHI Bulletin  Volume 22, Issue 2
    Oct. 1990
    78 pages
    ISSN:0736-6906
    DOI:10.1145/122475
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    • Bill Hefley
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    Association for Computing Machinery

    New York, NY, United States

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    Published: 01 November 1990
    Published in SIGCHI Volume 22, Issue 2

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