AD | Articulatory Data |
ADPCM | Adaptive Differential PCM |
AGC | Automatic Gain Control |
AI | Articulation Index |
AI | Artificial Intelligence |
ANN | Artificial Neural Network |
ANOVA | Analysis of Variance |
ANSI | American National Standards Institute |
API | Application Programming Interface |
ARPA | Advanced Research Program Agency |
ARPA | Advanced Research Projects Agency |
ARS | Adverse Recognition System |
ASCII | American Standard Code for |
Information Interchange | |
ASG | Automatic Speech Generation |
ASR | Automatic Speech Recognition |
ATIS | Air Line Travel Information System |
ATM | Automatic Teller Machine |
BAS | Bavarian Archive for Speech Signals |
BNC | British National Corpus |
BNF | Backus Naur Form (Backus Normal Form) |
CA | Contextual Appropriateness |
CART | Classification And Regression Trees |
CD-ROM | Compact Disk-Read Only Memory |
CFA | Confirmatory Factor Analysis |
CLID | CLuster IDentification |
COCOSDA | International Committee for Collaboration |
in Speech Assessment and Databases | |
CPT | Complete Phonetic Theory |
CPU | Central Processing Unit |
CR | Correction Rate |
CRIL | Computer Representation of |
Individual Languages | |
CTI | Computer Telephony Integration |
CTS | Concept-To-Speech |
CVC | Consonant Vowel Consonant |
CVSD | Continuously Variable Slope Delay |
DAT | Digital Audio Tape |
DATR | Default ATtribute Representation |
DBMS | DataBase Management System |
DD | Dialogue Duration |
DDL | Dialogue Description Language |
DP | Dynamic Programming |
DPSIE | Diagnostic Pairs Sentence Intelligibility |
Evaluation Test | |
DRA | Defence Research Agency |
DRT | Diagnostic Rhyme Test |
DSP | Digital Signal Processing |
DTMF | Dual Tone Multi-Frequency |
DTW | Dynamic Time Warping |
DVI | Direct Voice Input |
DVO | Direct Voice Output |
EAGLES | Expert Advisory Group on |
Language Engineering Standards | |
EER | Equal Error Rate |
EIN | Equivalent Input Noise |
ELRA | European Language Resources Association |
ELSA | ESPRIT Labelling System Assessment software |
EM | Expectation-Maximisation |
EMA | Electromagnetic Articulography |
EMG | electromyograph |
EUROPEC | European Program d'Enregistrement de Corpus |
FRANCIL | Re0.2ex'seau Francophone de l'Inge0.2ex'nierie |
de la Langue | |
GLIM | Generalised LInear Modelling Techniques |
GNE | Glottal-to-Noise Excitation |
GUI | Graphical User Interface |
HCI | Human-Computer Interaction |
HENR | Human Equivalent Noise Ratio |
HMM | Hidden Markov Model |
HP | high pass filter |
HPSG | Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar |
IC | Integrated Circuit |
ICASSP | International Conference on Acoustics, Speech |
and Signal Processing | |
ICPhS | International Congress of Phonetic Sciences |
ICSLP | International Conference on Spoken Language |
Processing | |
ILEX | Integrated LEXicon |
IPA | International Phonetic Alphabet |
IPO | Instituut voor Perceptie Onderzoek |
IVR | Interactive Voice Response |
KRL | Knowledge Representation Language |
LDC | Linguistic Data Consortium |
LES | Language Engineering Standards |
LKRL | Lexical Knowledge Representation Language |
LOO | Leaving-One-Out |
LP | low pass filter |
LRE | Linguistic Research and Engineering Programme |
LTI | Linear and Time-Invariant system |
Lin-PCM | Linear Pulse Code Modulation |
Log-PCM | Logarithmic Pulse Amplitude Modulation |
MIME | Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions |
MMI | Man-Machine Interaction |
MNRU | Modulated Noise Reference Unit |
MORPA | MORphological PArser |
MPI Test | Minimal Pairs Intelligibility Test |
MRPA | Machine Readable Phonetic Alphabet |
MRT | Modified Rhyme Test |
MVIP | Multi-Vendor Integration Protocol |
NERC | Network of European Reference Corpora |
NIST | National Institute of Standards |
NL | Natural Language |
NLP | Natural Language Processing |
NPL | National Physical Laboratory |
OCR | Optical Character Recognition |
OGI | Oregon Graduate Institute |
OOV | out-of-vocabulary |
OS | Operating System |
PABX | Private Automatic Branch Exchange |
PBX | Private Branch Exchange |
PAM | Pulse Amplitude Modulation |
PB | phonetically balanced |
PCM | Pulse Code Modulation |
PD | Phonetic Discrimination |
PDA | Pitch Determination Algorithm |
PDI | Pitch Determination Instrument |
PEB | Pulse coded modulation Expansion Bus |
PIN | Personal Identification Number |
PMT | Parametric Test Manager |
POS | Part Of Speech |
PSTN | Public Switched Telephone Network |
PTS | Progiciel de Traitement de Signal |
PZM | pressure zone microphone |
RAM | Random Access Memory |
ROARS | Robust Analytical Recognition System |
ROC | Receiver Operating Characteristic |
RSRE | Royal Signals Research Establishment |
RT | Reverberation Time |
SAM | Speech Assessment Methods (ESPRIT project) |
SAMITPRO | SAM Iterative Proportional Fitting |
SAMPA | Speech Assessment Methods Phonetic Alphabet |
SAMPROSA | SAM PROSodic Alphabet |
SAMTRA | SAM TRanscription Analysis |
SAM_SCOR | SAM Input Assessment Scoring Software |
SAM_SLM | SAM Speech Level Measuring program |
SAM_SPEX | SAM Speech Parameter EXtractor |
SCATIS | Spatially Coordinated Auditory/Tactile |
Interactive Scenario | |
SCSA | Signal Computing System Architecture |
TAO | Telephony Application Object |
SCR | System Correction Rate |
SDL | Specification and Description Language |
SDS | Spoken Dialogue System |
SDT | Signal Detection Theory |
SGML | Standard Generalized Markup Language |
SI | speech input |
SIFT | Simple Inverse Filtering Tracking |
SIO | Speech Input/Output |
SL | Spoken Language |
SLM | Speech Level Meter |
SLP | Spoken Language Processing |
SLWG | (EAGLES) Spoken Language Working Group |
SNR | Signal-to-Noise Ratio |
SOAP | Speech Output Assessment Package |
SOS | Second-Order Statistics |
SPL | Sound Pressure Level |
SQL | Standard Query Language |
SS | Speech Synthesis |
STAG | Speech Technology Assessment Group |
STS | Speech-to-speech Translation System |
SUS | Semantically Unpredictable Sentences |
SUS | Speech Understanding System |
TEI | Text Encoding Initiative |
TFW | Time-Frequency Warping |
TS | Transaction Success |
TSAPI | Telephony Services Application |
Programming Interface | |
TTS | Text-To-Speech |
ToBI | Tones and Break Indices (transcription) |
UCL | University College London |
UCR | User Correction Rate |
VR | Voice Response |
VRU | Voice Response Unit |
WIF | Word form Interchange Format |
WORM | Write Once Read Many |
WOZ | Wizard of Oz |
WSJ | Wall Street Journal |