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From: andrewh@speech.su.oz.au (Andrew Hunt)
Subject: Reminder: comp.speech FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions)
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                       comp.speech

       Frequently Asked Questions - Weekly Reminder
       ============================================

A FAQ posting is available for the comp.speech newsgroup.  It answers
some commonly asked questions on Speech Technology.  Please check the
FAQ before posting a request for information.  The contents of the FAQ
are included below.

This reminder is posted every week.  The FAQ is posted every 4 weeks to 
comp.speech, comp.answers & news.answers.

It is also available for anonymous ftp from the comp.speech archive site
	svr-ftp.eng.cam.ac.uk:/comp.speech/FAQ
It is also available from the news.answers ftp site (and its mirrors) in
	rtfm.mit.edu:/pub/usenet/news.answers/comp-speech-faq
It is also available by sending email to <mail-server@rtfm.mit.edu> with
	send usenet/news.answers/comp-speech-faq/*
	in one line of the body of the message.


       Contents
       ========

SECTION 1 - General
 
Q1.1: What is comp.speech?
Q1.2: Where are the comp.speech archives?
Q1.3: Common abbreviations and jargon.
Q1.4: What are related newsgroups and mailing lists?
Q1.5: What are related journals and conferences?
Q1.6: What resources are available as handicap aids?
Q1.7: What speech data is available?
Q1.8: Speech File Formats, Conversion and Playing.
Q1.9: What "Speech Laboratory Environments" are available?
Q1.10: Miscelaneous Software and Other Resources.
 
SECTION 2 - Signal Processing for Speech
 
Q2.1: What sampling do I need for speech?
Q2.2: How do I find the pitch of a speech signal?
Q2.3: How do I find the start and end points of a speech signal?
Q2.4: Where can I find FFT software?
Q2.5: What signal processing techniques are used in speech technology?
Q2.6: What speech sampling and signal processing hardware can I use?
Q2.7: How do I convert to/from mu-law format?
 
SECTION 3 - Speech Coding and Compression
 
Q3.1: Speech compression techniques.
Q3.2: What are some good references/books on coding/compression?
Q3.3: What software is available? (Includes CELP & G.7xx)
 
SECTION 4 - Natural Language Processing
 
Q4.1: What are some good references/books on NLP?
Q4.2: What NLP software is available?
 
SECTION 5 - Speech Synthesis
 
Q5.1: What is speech synthesis?
Q5.2: How can speech synthesis be performed?
Q5.3: What are some good references/books on synthesis?
Q5.4: What software/hardware is available?
 
SECTION 6 - Speech Recognition
 
Q6.1: What is speech recognition?
Q6.2: How can I build a very simple speech recogniser?
Q6.2: What does speaker dependent/adaptive/independent mean?
Q6.3: What does small/medium/large/very-large vocabulary mean?
Q6.4: What does continuous speech or isolated-word mean?
Q6.5: How is speech recognition done?
Q6.6: What are some good references/books on recognition?
Q6.7: What speech recognition packages are available?
 
Andrew Hunt
Speech Technology Research Group		Ph:  61-2-692 4509
Dept. of Electrical Engineering			Fax: 61-2-692 3847
University of Sydney, NSW, 2006, Australia	email: andrewh@speech.su.oz.au
