SCIENTIFIC BASES OF HUMAN-MACHINE COMMUNICATION BY VOICE

The scientific bases for human-machine communication by voice are in t he fields of psychology, linguistics, acoustics, signal processing, co mputer science, and integrated circuit technology, The purpose of this paper is to highlight the basic scientific and technological issues i n human-machine communication by voice and to point out areas of futur e research opportunity. The discussion is organized around the followi ng major issues in implementing human-machine voice communication syst ems: (i) hardware/software implementation of the system, (ii) speech s ynthesis for voice output, (iii) speech recognition and understanding for voice input, and (iv) usability factors related to how humans inte ract with machines.