Computer Processing of Human Language

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Computer Processing of Human LanguageUntil a few decades ago, language was strictly "human only - others need not apply." Today, it is common for computers to process language. Computational Linguistics is a subfield of linguistics and computer science that is concerned with the interactions of human language and computers.

Difficulties of Text-To-Speech 1. The problem with words spelled alike but pornounced differently. Unstructured, linear knowledge will not suffice.2. Inconsistent spelling, as illustrated in the following poem: I take it you already know Of tough and bough and cough and dough Each of the ough words is phonetically different, but it is difficult to find rules that dictate when gh should be (f) and when it is silent.

Text-To-Speech To provide input to the speech synthesizer, a computer program called test-to speech converts written text into the basic units of the synthesizer. For formant synthesizers, the text-to-speech process translates the input text into a phonetic representation. Naturally, the text-to-speech process precedes the electronic conversion to sound.

Most Synthetic Speech... Most synthetic speech still has a machinelike quality or accent, caused by small inaccuracies in simulation, and because suprasegmental factors such as changing intonation and stress patterns are not yet fully understood. If not correct, such factors may be more confusing than mispronounced phonemes. Currently, the chief area or research in speech synthesis is concerned precisely with discovering and programming the rules of rhythm and timing that native speakers apply.

Recipe for Producing Synthetic Speech 1. Start with a tone at the same frequency as vibrating vocal cords;2. Emphasize the harmonics corresponding to the formants required for a particular vowel, liquid, or nasal quality;3. Add hissing or buzzing for fricatives;4. Add nasal resonances for nasal sounds;5. Temporarily cut off sound to produce stops and affricates, etc.All of these ingredients are blended electronically, using computers to produce highly intelligible, more or less natural-spunding speech. Because item (2) is central to the process, this method of speech synthesis is called formant synthesis.

Computer Linguistics Computer Linguistics includes the analysis of written texts and spoken discourse, the translation of text and speech from one language into another, the use of human (not computer) languages for communication between computers and people, and the modeling and testing of linguistic theories. Man is still the most extraordinary computer of all. JOHN F. KENNEDY (1917-1963)

Computational Phonetics and PhonologyThe two sides of computational phonetics and phonology are speech recognition and speech synthesis. Speech recognition is the process of analyzing the speech signal into its component phones and phonemes, and producing, in effect, a phonetic transcription of the speech. Further processing may convert the transcription into ordinary text for output on a screen, or into words and phrases for further processing, as in a speech understanding application. Note: Speech recognition is not the same as speech understanding, as is commonly thought. Rather, speech recognition is a necessary precursor to the far more complex process of comprehension.Speech syntesis is the process of creating electronic signals that simulate the phones and prosodic features of speech and assemble them into words and phrases for output to an electronic speaker, or for further processing as in a speech generation application.