List of abbreviations

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