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Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- List of Contributors xv -- Acknowledgments xvii -- 1 Introduction 1 / Tuomas Virtanen, Rita Singh, Bhiksha Raj -- 1.1 Scope of the Book 1 -- 1.2 Outline 2 -- 1.3 Notation 4 -- Part One FOUNDATIONS -- 2 The Basics of Automatic Speech Recognition 9 / Rita Singh, Bhiksha Raj, Tuomas Virtanen -- 2.1 Introduction 9 -- 2.2 Speech Recognition Viewed as Bayes Classification 10 -- 2.3 Hidden Markov Models 11 -- 2.3.1 Computing Probabilities with HMMs 12 -- 2.3.2 Determining the State Sequence 17 -- 2.3.3 Learning HMM Parameters 19 -- 2.3.4 Additional Issues Relating to Speech Recognition Systems 20 -- 2.4 HMM-Based Speech Recognition 24 -- 2.4.1 Representing the Signal 24 -- 2.4.2 The HMM for a Word Sequence 25 -- 2.4.3 Searching through all Word Sequences 26 -- References 29 -- 3 The Problem of Robustness in Automatic Speech Recognition 31 / Bhiksha Raj, Tuomas Virtanen, Rita Singh -- 3.1 Errors in Bayes Classification 31 -- 3.1.1 Type 1 Condition: Mismatch Error 33 -- 3.1.2 Type 2 Condition: Increased Bayes Error 34 -- 3.2 Bayes Classification and ASR 35 -- 3.2.1 All We Have is a Model: A Type 1 Condition 35 -- 3.2.2 Intrinsic Interferences - Signal Components that are Unrelated to the Message: A Type 2 Condition 36 -- 3.2.3 External Interferences - The Data are Noisy: Type 1 and Type 2 Conditions 36 -- 3.3 External Influences on Speech Recordings 36 -- 3.3.1 Signal Capture 37 -- 3.3.2 Additive Corruptions 41 -- 3.3.3 Reverberation 42 -- 3.3.4 A Simplified Model of Signal Capture 43 -- 3.4 The Effect of External Influences on Recognition 44 -- 3.5 Improving Recognition under Adverse Conditions 46 -- 3.5.1 Handling the Model Mismatch Error 46 -- 3.5.2 Dealing with Intrinsic Variations in the Data 47 -- 3.5.3 Dealing with Extrinsic Variations 47 -- References 50 -- Part Two SIGNAL ENHANCEMENT -- 4 Voice Activity Detection, Noise Estimation, and Adaptive Filters for Acoustic Signal Enhancement 53 / Rainer Martin, Dorothea Kolossa -- 4.1 Introduction 53 -- 4.2 Signal Analysis and Synthesis 55.…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…. -- Data Service Requirements Considerations -- Video Services -- RF Video -- IPTV Broadcast -- Video on Demand -- Video Services Requirements Considerations -- Voice Services -- VoIP Special Circuits -- Management Systems Requirements -- Provisioning Management Systems -- Business Support Systems -- Operational Support Systems -- Outside Plant Requirements -- OPEN ACCESS NETWORKS -- CONCLUSION -- Endnote -- 9 - Outside Plant -- INTRODUCTION -- WHAT SKILLS DO YOU NEED? …”

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