Re: Anyone remember "Speakeasy" (R K Moore )


Subject: Re: Anyone remember "Speakeasy"
From:    R K Moore  <r.k.moore@xxxxxxxx>
Date:    Mon, 5 Sep 2011 22:57:58 +0100
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This is a multipart message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_0010_01CC6C1F.41F9FCF0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I do - in fact I have a full set of SpeakEasys somewhere in my office! Your post reminds me of my own analysis a few years after Alan's . Moore R K. 'Whither a theory of speech pattern processing?', Proc. EUROSPEECH, Berlin, 21-23 September (1993). . followed by an actual proposal (only 14 years later!) . Moore R. K. 'Spoken Language Processing: Piecing Together the Puzzle', Speech Communication, Special Issue on Bridging the Gap Between Human and Automatic Speech Processing, vol.49, pp.418-435, (2007) You might also be interested in . Moore, R. K. (2011). Progress and prospects for speech technology: Results from three sexennial surveys, INTERSPEECH. Florence, Italy. All the best Roger _____________________________________________________________ Prof ROGER K MOORE BA(Hons) MSc PhD FIOA MIET Chair of Spoken Language Processing Speech and Hearing Research Group (SPandH) Department of Computer Science, University of Sheffield, Regent Court, 211 Portobello, Sheffield, S1 4DP, UK e-mail: r.k.moore@xxxxxxxx web: <http://www.dcs.shef.ac.uk/~roger/> http://www.dcs.shef.ac.uk/~roger/ tel: +44 (0) 11422 21807 fax: +44 (0) 11422 21810 mobile: +44 (0) 7910 073631 Editor-in-Chief: COMPUTER SPEECH AND LANGUAGE http://ees.elsevier.com/csl/ ________________________________________________________________ From: AUDITORY - Research in Auditory Perception [mailto:AUDITORY@xxxxxxxx On Behalf Of John Bates Sent: 05 September 2011 21:31 To: AUDITORY@xxxxxxxx Subject: [AUDITORY] Anyone remember "Speakeasy" Dear List Seniors, Does anyone remember the British "Speakeasy" newsletter? It was a kind of pre-Internet Auditory List. A friend had sent me copies of it from England in the late 1980s. It often generated interesting discussions on speech recognition. Recently, I ran across the April 1988 issue which included a Forum essay by Alan Crowe. The essay begins with remarks on J. R. Pierce's disruptive paper "Whither Speech Recognition." From this Crowe makes an assessment of the state of the art as he saw it at ICASSP 87. I think it is relevant today so I'm attaching it here. Unfortunately, I have lost the second page, but you can still get Alan's main idea. Maybe, what we need even after 23 years is his missing "fairly standard theory." John Bates ------=_NextPart_000_0010_01CC6C1F.41F9FCF0 Content-Type: text/html; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable <html xmlns:v=3D"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml" = xmlns:o=3D"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" = xmlns:w=3D"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:word" = xmlns:m=3D"http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/2004/12/omml" = xmlns=3D"http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40"> <head> <meta http-equiv=3DContent-Type content=3D"text/html; = charset=3Dus-ascii"> <meta name=3DGenerator content=3D"Microsoft Word 12 (filtered medium)"> <style> <!-- /* Font Definitions */ @xxxxxxxx {font-family:Calibri; panose-1:2 15 5 2 2 2 4 3 2 4;} @xxxxxxxx {font-family:Tahoma; panose-1:2 11 6 4 3 5 4 4 2 4;} /* Style Definitions */ p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal {margin:0cm; margin-bottom:.0001pt; font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";} a:link, span.MsoHyperlink {mso-style-priority:99; color:blue; text-decoration:underline;} a:visited, span.MsoHyperlinkFollowed {mso-style-priority:99; color:purple; text-decoration:underline;} p {mso-style-priority:99; mso-margin-top-alt:auto; margin-right:0cm; mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto; margin-left:0cm; font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";} span.EmailStyle17 {mso-style-type:personal-reply; font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; color:#1F497D;} .MsoChpDefault {mso-style-type:export-only; font-size:10.0pt;} @xxxxxxxx Section1 {size:612.0pt 792.0pt; margin:72.0pt 72.0pt 72.0pt 72.0pt;} div.Section1 {page:Section1;} --> </style> <!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <o:shapedefaults v:ext=3D"edit" spidmax=3D"1026" /> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <o:shapelayout v:ext=3D"edit"> <o:idmap v:ext=3D"edit" data=3D"1" /> </o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--> </head> <body bgcolor=3Dwhite lang=3DEN-US link=3Dblue vlink=3Dpurple> <div class=3DSection1> <p class=3DMsoNormal><span = style=3D'font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; color:#1F497D'>I do &#8211; in fact I have a full set of SpeakEasys = somewhere in my office!<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=3DMsoNormal><span = style=3D'font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; color:#1F497D'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=3DMsoNormal><span = style=3D'font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; color:#1F497D'>Your post reminds me of my own analysis a few years after = Alan&#8217;s &#8230;<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=3DMsoNormal><span = style=3D'font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; color:#1F497D'>Moore R K. 'Whither a theory of speech pattern = processing?', <i>Proc. EUROSPEECH</i>, Berlin, 21-23 September (1993).<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=3DMsoNormal><span = style=3D'font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; color:#1F497D'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=3DMsoNormal><span = style=3D'font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; color:#1F497D'>&#8230; followed by an actual proposal (only 14 years = later!) &#8230;<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=3DMsoNormal><span = style=3D'font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; color:#1F497D'>Moore R. K. 'Spoken Language Processing: Piecing Together = the Puzzle'<i>, Speech Communication</i>, Special Issue on Bridging the Gap = Between Human and Automatic Speech Processing, vol.49, pp.418-435, = (2007)<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=3DMsoNormal><span = style=3D'font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; color:#1F497D'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=3DMsoNormal><span = style=3D'font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; color:#1F497D'>You might also be interested in = &#8230;<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=3DMsoNormal><span = style=3D'font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; color:#1F497D'>Moore, R. K. (2011). Progress and prospects for speech technology: Results from three sexennial surveys, <i>INTERSPEECH</i>. = Florence, Italy.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=3DMsoNormal><span = style=3D'font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; color:#1F497D'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=3DMsoNormal><span = style=3D'font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; color:#1F497D'>All the best<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=3DMsoNormal><span = style=3D'font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; color:#1F497D'>Roger<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=3DMsoNormal><span = style=3D'font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; color:#1F497D'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <div> <p class=3DMsoNormal><span = style=3D'font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; color:#1F497D'>__________________________________________________________= ___<br> <br> Prof ROGER K MOORE BA(Hons) MSc PhD FIOA MIET<br> <br> Chair of Spoken Language Processing<br> Speech and Hearing Research Group (SPandH)<br> Department of Computer Science, University of Sheffield,<br> Regent Court, 211 Portobello,<br> Sheffield, S1 4DP, UK<br> <br> e-mail: r.k.moore@xxxxxxxx<br> web:&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <a = href=3D"http://www.dcs.shef.ac.uk/~roger/"><span style=3D'color:blue'>http://www.dcs.shef.ac.uk/~roger/</span></a><br> tel:&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; +44 (0) 11422 21807<br> fax:&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; +44 (0) 11422 21810<br> mobile: +44 (0) 7910 073631<br> <br> Editor-in-Chief: COMPUTER SPEECH AND LANGUAGE<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=3DMsoNormal><span = style=3D'font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; color:#1F497D'>http://ees.elsevier.com/csl/<br> ________________________________________________________________</span><s= pan style=3D'font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497= D'> </span><span style=3D'font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497= D'><o:p></o:p></span></p> </div> <p class=3DMsoNormal><span = style=3D'font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; color:#1F497D'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <div style=3D'border:none;border-left:solid blue 1.5pt;padding:0cm 0cm = 0cm 4.0pt'> <div> <div style=3D'border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt = 0cm 0cm 0cm'> <p class=3DMsoNormal><b><span = style=3D'font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span>= </b><span style=3D'font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> AUDITORY - = Research in Auditory Perception [mailto:AUDITORY@xxxxxxxx <b>On Behalf Of = </b>John Bates<br> <b>Sent:</b> 05 September 2011 21:31<br> <b>To:</b> AUDITORY@xxxxxxxx<br> <b>Subject:</b> [AUDITORY] Anyone remember = &quot;Speakeasy&quot;<o:p></o:p></span></p> </div> </div> <p class=3DMsoNormal><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p> <div> <p class=3DMsoNormal><span = style=3D'font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Dear List Seniors,</span><o:p></o:p></p> </div> <div> <p class=3DMsoNormal>&nbsp;<o:p></o:p></p> </div> <div> <p class=3DMsoNormal><span = style=3D'font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Does anyone&nbsp; remember the British &quot;Speakeasy&quot; = newsletter?&nbsp;It was a&nbsp;kind of pre-Internet Auditory List.</span><o:p></o:p></p> </div> <div> <p class=3DMsoNormal>&nbsp;<o:p></o:p></p> </div> <div> <p class=3DMsoNormal><span = style=3D'font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>A friend had sent me&nbsp;copies of it from England&nbsp;in the late = 1980s. It often generated interesting discussions on speech recognition. Recently,&nbsp;I&nbsp;ran across&nbsp;the April 1988 issue = which&nbsp;included a Forum essay by Alan Crowe.&nbsp;The essay begins with remarks on J. R. Pierce's disruptive paper &quot;Whither Speech Recognition.&quot; From this&nbsp;Crowe makes&nbsp;an&nbsp;assessment of the state of the art as = he saw it at ICASSP 87. I think it is relevant today so I'm attaching it = here.</span>&nbsp;<span style=3D'font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Unfortunately= , I have lost the second page, but you&nbsp;can still&nbsp;get Alan's main idea. = Maybe, what we need even after&nbsp;23 years is&nbsp;his missing &quot;fairly = standard theory.&quot; </span><o:p></o:p></p> </div> <div> <p class=3DMsoNormal>&nbsp;<o:p></o:p></p> </div> <div> <p class=3DMsoNormal><span = style=3D'font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>John Bates</span><o:p></o:p></p> </div> </div> </div> </body> </html> ------=_NextPart_000_0010_01CC6C1F.41F9FCF0--


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