Chapter 12. Building A Speech Recognizer

In this chapter, we are going to learn about speech recognition. We will discuss how to work with speech signals and understand how to visualize various audio signals. By utilizing various techniques to process speech signals, we will learn how to build a speech recognition system.

By the end of this chapter, you will know about:

  • Working with speech signals
  • Visualizing audio signals
  • Transforming audio signals to frequency domain
  • Generating audio signals
  • Synthesizing tones
  • Extracting speech features
  • Recognizing spoken words

Working with speech signals

Speech recognition is the process of understanding the words that are spoken by humans. The speech signals are captured using a microphone and the system tries to understand ...

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