Working Papers in Speech Recognition, 3

The report is a collection of Working Papers in Speech Recognition on the following topics: Organization of the HEARSAY II speech understanding system; The DRAGON system -- an overview; Parameter-independent machine segmentation and labeling; A new time-domain analysis of fricatives and stop consonants; Sub-lexical levels in the HEARSAY II speech understanding system; Inference and use of simple predictive grammars; Real-time linear predictive coding of speech on the SPS-41 microprogrammed triple-processor system; A 16-bit A-D-A conversion system for high-fidelity audio research.