Readings in Speech Recognition

Alexander Waibel · Kai-Fu Lee

Dec 1990 · Elsevier

About this eBook

After more than two decades of research activity, speech recognition has begun to live up to its promise as a practical technology and interest in the field is growing dramatically. Readings in Speech Recognition provides a collection of seminal papers that have influenced or redirected the field and that illustrate the central insights that have emerged over the years.

The editors provide an introduction to the field, its concerns and research problems. Subsequent chapters are devoted to the main schools of thought and design philosophies that have motivated different approaches to speech recognition system design. Each chapter includes an introduction to the papers that highlights the major insights or needs that have motivated an approach to a problem and describes the commonalities and differences of that approach to others in the book.

About the author

Kai-Fu Lee was born on December 3, 1961 in Taipei, Taiwan. He earned a B.S. degree in computer science from Columbia University and a Ph.D in computer science from Carnegie Mellon University. In 1988, he completed his doctoral dissertation on Sphinx, the first large-vocabulary, speaker-independent, continuous speech recognition system. Lee has written two books on speech recognition and more than 60 papers in computer science. His doctoral dissertation was published in 1988 as a Kluwer monograph, Automatic Speech Recognition: The Development of the Sphinx Recognition System. Together with Alex Waibel, another Carnegie Mellon researcher, Lee edited Readings in Speech Recognition.