It is an established tradition that researchers from many countries get
together on the average every three years for a two week Advanced
Studies Institute on Automatic Speech Recognition and Synthesis.
According to ASI policies the Institute is financed by NATO. This book
contains the texts of lectures and papers contributed by the attendees
of the ASI which was held July 2 - 14, 1984, at Bonas, Gers, France.
Focussed on New Systems and Architectures for Automatic Speech
Recognition and Synthesis, this book is divided into 4 parts: (a) Review
of ba8ic algorithm8 (b) SY8tem architecture and VLSI for automatic
Speech (c) Software 8Y8tem8 for automatic 8peech recognition, (d) Speech
8ynthe8i8 and phonetic8. Due to the international nature of the
Institute, the readers will find in this book different styles,
different points of view and applications to different languages. This
reflects also some characteristics of the International Association for
Pattern Recognition (!APR) whose technical committee on Speech
Recognition has organized this ASI. Proposed contributions have been
reviewed by an Editorial Committee composed of W. Ainsworth (Kent), R.
Bisiani (Pittsburgh), J. P. Haton (Nancy), W. Hess (Munich), J. L. Houle
(Montreal), P. Laface (Turin), R. Moore (Malvern), H. Niemann (Erlangen)
and J. Ohala (Berkeley). Typesetting of the book was performed using
SYMSET facilities developed entirely by the Department of Computer
Science at Concordia University. Special thanks are due to L. Lam, H.
Monkiewicz and L. Thiel.