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Talker variability in speech processing / edited by Keith Johnson, John W. Mullennix. - Ed. 1. - San Diego : Academic Press, c1997. - xii, 237 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Complex representations ised in speech processing - overview of the book; some thoughts on "normalization" in speech perception; words and voices - perception and production in episodic lexicon; on the nature of perceptual adjustment to voice; listening to voices - theory and practice in voice perception research; talker normalization - phonetic constancy as a cognitive process; normalization of vowels by breath sounds; speech perception without speaker normalization - an exemplar model; speaker modeling for speaker adaptation in automatic speech recognition; overcoming speaker variability in automatic speech recognition - the speaker adaptation approach; vocal tract normalization for articulatory recovery and adaptation.

ISBN: 0123865603 (alk. paper)

LCCN: 96031802

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Psycholinguistics.
Speech perception.
Automatic speech recognition.
Language and languages--Variation.

LC Class. No.: P37 / .T24 1997

Dewey Class. No.: 006.454 JOH M