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Product Description: Efficient language engineering depends crucially on reliable evaluation of the system components. Spoken Language System Assessment describes the best current laboratory practice in the relevant assessment methodologies. An overview of basic statistical and experimental procedures is provided, followed by detailed accounts of reliable assessment methodologies for: Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) systems Speaker Verification systems Speech Synthesis systems Interactive Dialogue systems...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Product Description: The domain of spoken language technologies ranges from speech input and output systems to complex speech understanding and generation systems. Spoken Language System and Corpus Design provides the potential user of speech technologies as well as the developer of applications with the essential knowledge for: The precise formulation of individual requirement profiles The competent and accurate comparison of available technologies The design, construction, transcription and use of spoken language corpora for speech research and development...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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