Speech Communication, Volume 29

Volume 29, Number 1, September 1999

R. J. J. H. van Son, Louis C. W. Pols:
Perisegmental speech improves consonant and vowel identification. 1-22
Insung Lee, Jerry D. Gibson:
Tree coding combined with TDHS for speech coding at 6.4 and 4.8 kbps. 23-37
Balázs Kövesi, Samir Saoudi, Jean-Marc Boucher, Gábor Horváth:
Real time vector quantization of LSP parameters. 39-47
Houda Mokbel, Denis Jouvet:
Derivation of the optimal set of phonetic transcriptions for a word from its acoustic realizations. 49-64
Javier Ferreiros, José M. Pardo:
Improving continuous speech recognition in Spanish by phone-class semicontinuous HMMs with pausing and multiple pronunciations. 65-76

Helmer Strik:
Editorial. 81-82
Martine Adda-Decker, Lori Lamel:
Pronunciation variants across system configuration, language and speaking style. 83-98
Michiel Bacchiani, Mari Ostendorf:
Joint lexicon, acoustic unit inventory and model design. 99-114
Nick Cremelie, Jean-Pierre Martens:
In search of better pronunciation models for speech recognition. 115-136
Eric Fosler-Lussier, Nelson Morgan:
Effects of speaking rate and word frequency on pronunciations in convertional speech. 137-158
Steven Greenberg:
Speaking in shorthand - A syllable-centric perspective for understanding pronunciation variation. 159-176
Trym Holter, Torbjørn Svendsen:
Maximum likelihood modelling of pronunciation variation. 177-191
Judith M. Kessens, Mirjam Wester, Helmer Strik:
Improving the performance of a Dutch CSR by modeling within-word and cross-word pronunciation variation. 193-207
Michael Riley, William Byrne, Michael Finke, Sanjeev Khudanpur, Andrej Ljolje, John McDonough, Harriet J. Nock, Murat Saraclar, Charles Wooters, George Zavaliagkos:
Stochastic pronunciation modelling from hand-labelled phonetic corpora. 209-224
Helmer Strik, Catia Cucchiarini:
Modeling pronunciation variation for ASR: A survey of the literature. 225-246