Expert: vijayan - 8/25/2008

Question
sir,
  i am currently interested in doing a project on speech technology through c++ implementation .
i would like u to guide me through this.
please reply soon.

              thanking you.

yours faithfully,
s.krishnan

Answer
what aspect of speech technology are you doing a project on?
is it speech recognition, speech processing, spoken language understanding,
or speech synthesis?

here are some references to get you started:

basics and HOWTO: http://www.faqs.org/docs/Linux-HOWTO/Speech-Recognition-HOWTO.html

an open source speech recognition library (tools and applications):
http://freespeech.sourceforge.net/

books:
1. Speech Recognition: Theory and C++ Implementation
  by Claudio Becchetti, Lucio Prina Ricotti
  Wiley (1999) ISBN-10: 0471977306  ISBN-13: 978-0471977308

2. Spoken Language Processing: A Guide to Theory, Algorithm and System Development
  by Xuedong Huang, Alex Acero, Hsiao-Wuen Hon
  Prentice Hall PTR (2001) ISBN-10: 0130226165  ISBN-13: 978-0130226167

3. Statistical Methods for Speech Recognition (Language, Speech, and Communication)
  by Frederick Jelinek
  The MIT Press (1998)  ISBN-10: 0262100665  ISBN-13: 978-0262100663   

4. Discrete-Time Speech Signal Processing: Principles and Practice
  by Thomas F. Quatieri  
  Prentice Hall PTR (2001)  ISBN-10: 013242942X  ISBN-13: 978-0132429429