| Presentation | 2008-12-09 Cognitive competence required for spoken language performance and computational competence realized by spoken language engineering Nobuaki MINEMATSU, |
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| Abstract(in English) | The performance and flexibility of speech recognition and synthesis technologies have been remarkably enhanced by introducing statistical modeling of speech sounds, before which, waveform-based or spectrum-based templates were stored and used for acoustic matching and speech generation. However, a large gap cannot be denied yet between the computational competence realized by spoken language engineering and the cognitive and language competence of humans. Acoustic models used for speech recognition are often built after collecting utterances of thousands of speakers. Human infants, however, acquire spoken language by hearing a remarkably speaker-biased speech corpus; mother, father, and themselves. In speech synthesis, a synthesizer generates speech sounds of the speaker used to train the synthesizer. No infant, however, impersonates its parents to acquire spoken language. Although the aim of spoken language engineering is to realize the man-machine interface based on spoken language, a large gap still exists between humans and machines. The author wonders whether this gap is due to the technical immatureness or due to researchers' immatureness of understanding humans. Considering the information processing of severely damaged autistics, for whom spoken language is very difficult to acquire, and that of the other primates than humans, who cannot acquire spoken language, this paper discusses the cognitive competence required for spoken language performance and the computational competence realized by spoken language engineering. |
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| Keyword(in English) | spoken language performance / spoken language engineering / variability and invariance / relative sense of tone / autistics / primates / evolution / structural phonology |
| Paper # | NLC2008-29,SP2008-84 |
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| Conference Date | 2008/12/2(1days) |
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| Language | JPN |
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| Title (in English) | Cognitive competence required for spoken language performance and computational competence realized by spoken language engineering |
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| Keyword(1) | spoken language performance |
| Keyword(2) | spoken language engineering |
| Keyword(3) | variability and invariance |
| Keyword(4) | relative sense of tone |
| Keyword(5) | autistics |
| Keyword(6) | primates |
| Keyword(7) | evolution |
| Keyword(8) | structural phonology |
| 1st Author's Name | Nobuaki MINEMATSU |
| 1st Author's Affiliation | Graduate School of Engineering, The University of Tokyo() |
| Date | 2008-12-09 |
| Paper # | NLC2008-29,SP2008-84 |
| Volume (vol) | vol.108 |
| Number (no) | 337 |
| Page | pp.pp.- |
| #Pages | 6 |
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