What Is a Speech Chain and How Can This Concept Be Applied to the Various Areas of Speech Communication in an Intelligent Society?

Takayuki Arai

2021

Abstract

The concept of “Speech Chain” introduced by Denes and Pinson is widely used to interpret speech communication systems. The concept was originally aimed at human speech communication: a speaker first forms a message in his/her brain, the message is transformed into an acoustic signal that is sent to a listener, and the listener decodes the signal back into the original message. This simple situation can be extended to many scenarios. The acoustic signal can be fed into a telephone and transmitted over a telephone network. In human-computer communication, the speaker can be a speech synthesis system or the listener can be an automatic speech recognition system. For people who have lost the ability to talk, a speech synthesis system can improve their quality of life, and for people who have impaired hearing, an automatic speech recognition system can be a saviour. Communication with others is crucial as we live with other people in a society. As societies transform into intelligent societies, it is even more important to investigate speech communication systems from a scientific point of view and develop relevant applications in accordance with scientific findings. In this talk, the speech production mechanism will first be reviewed by using a set of vocal-tract models. Then, Speech Chain variations will be introduced for various areas in speech communication. Finally, application of the Speech Chain concept to an intelligent society through our “My Voice” project will be shared.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Arai T. (2021). What Is a Speech Chain and How Can This Concept Be Applied to the Various Areas of Speech Communication in an Intelligent Society?. In Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Emerging Issues in Technology, Engineering and Science - Volume 1: ICE-TES, ISBN 978-989-758-601-9, pages 5-8. DOI: 10.5220/0010743600003113

in Bibtex Style

@conference{ice-tes21,
author={Takayuki Arai},
title={What Is a Speech Chain and How Can This Concept Be Applied to the Various Areas of Speech Communication in an Intelligent Society?},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Emerging Issues in Technology, Engineering and Science - Volume 1: ICE-TES,},
year={2021},
pages={5-8},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0010743600003113},
isbn={978-989-758-601-9},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Emerging Issues in Technology, Engineering and Science - Volume 1: ICE-TES,
TI - What Is a Speech Chain and How Can This Concept Be Applied to the Various Areas of Speech Communication in an Intelligent Society?
SN - 978-989-758-601-9
AU - Arai T.
PY - 2021
SP - 5
EP - 8
DO - 10.5220/0010743600003113