Robustness in Automatic Speech Recognition: Fundamentals and Applications

Foreword Looking back the past 30 years. we have seen steady progress made in the area of speech science and technology. I still remember the excitement in the late seventies when Texas Instruments came up with a toy named "Speak—and—Spell" which was based on a VLSI chip containing the state—of—the—art linear prediction synthesizer. This caused a speech technology fever among the electronics industry. Particularly. applications of automatic speech recognition were rigorously attempt­ ed by ...