Rc. Rose et al., THE POTENTIAL ROLE OF SPEECH PRODUCTION MODELS IN AUTOMATIC SPEECH RECOGNITION, The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 99(3), 1996, pp. 1699-1709
This paper investigates the issues that are associated with applying s
peech production models to automatic speech recognition (ASR). Here th
e applicability of articulatory representations to ASR is considered i
ndependently of the role of articulatory representations in speech per
ception. While the question of whether it is necessary or even possibl
e for human listeners to recover the state of the articulators during
the process of perceiving speech is an important one, it is not consid
ered here. Hence, the authors refrain from posing completely new parad
igms for ASR which more closely parallel the relationship between spee
ch production and human speech understanding. Instead, work aimed at i
ntegrating speech production models into existing ASR formalisms is de
scribed. (C) 1996 Acoustical Society of America.