The thesis of the proposed research is that connectionist networks are adequate models for the problem of acoustic phonetic speech recognition by computer. Adequacy is defined as suitably high recognition performance on a representative set of speech recognition problems. Seven acoustic phonetic problems are selected and discussed in relation to a physiological theory of phonetics. It is argued...

iPA Phonetics is an iOS application based on the Laryngeal Articulator Model that illustrates voice qualities, vowel qualities, and consonant production with video/audio of articulations in the oral vocal tract and laryngoscopic video/audio and ultrasound images of the laryngeal vocal tract. The Consonant Chart is an expanded version of the 2005 IPA chart; the replay speed of consonant and vowe...

Paul De Palma Department of Computer Science Gonzaga University Spokane, WA [email protected] Research into automatic speech recognition (ASR) has a long history dating to the earliest days of computing. It began roughly at the same time that researchers first developed compilers for the early high-level programming languages. Bell Labs, RCA Research, and MIT’s Lincoln labs all used new ideas...