ACCOR - INSTRUMENTATION AND DATABASE FOR THE CROSS-LANGUAGE STUDY OF COARTICULATION

An unavoidable problem in speech technology, particularly in the devel opment of robust automatic speech recognition systems, is the extreme variability in the acoustic attributes of segments. Segments are highl y sensitive to context and bear little resemblance to their intrinsic characteristics manifested when they are uttered in isolation. However , the problem can become tractable if we model the linguistic and phys iological aspects of coarticulatory processes, the main source of syst ematic variability at the segmental level.