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导言人类语音的研究与电话工业有着源远流长的历史关系,它是一个高度综合性的多边缘学科,包括生理学、心理学、语言学、语音学、物理学、通讯工业等。近年来,对人—机语音通信及其应用的研究已经诞生了一门新的学科—语音工程(Speech Technology)。 1949年至1951年,我在美国的MIT(麻省理工学院),那一时期正是语音研究蓬勃发展的阶段。由于去美国之前,我曾在斯德哥尔摩的埃里克森(Ericsson)公司从事过一段语音分析的研究,所以这一段经历不仅有助于一些有关语音研究技术性的工作,而且还促进了与其语言学和实验心理学方面的联系和合作②。在MIT我遇到了一位红头发的研究生,他就是现在贝尔实验室的J.弗拉纳根(Flanagan)③。在语音工程领域,弗拉纳根和他的同事们一直是处于领先地位的科学家。今天,我们又一起来接受埃里克森奖金,我十分荣幸地能与这位老朋友和语音工程界的泰斗共享这份荣誉。这不仅是因为我们是多年的老友,他曾于1957年做过我的博士学位答辩委员会的委员④;而且它还象征着在这个领域内美国和瑞典的密切合作关系。
Introduction The study of human speech has a long historical relationship with the telephone industry. It is a highly integrated and multi-disciplinary subject including physiology, psychology, linguistics, phonetics, physics and communications. In recent years, research on human-machine speech communication and its applications has created a new discipline, Speech Technology. From 1949 to 1951, I was at the MIT in the United States (MIT), during which time the voice research was booming. Before going to the United States, I did a speech analysis at Ericsson in Stockholm, so this experience not only helped some of the technical work on phonetics, but also helped to improve my understanding of linguistics and Experimental psychology in contact and cooperation ②. At MIT I met a red-haired graduate student who is now Flanagan at Bell Labs. Flanagan and his colleagues have been leading scientists in the field of speech engineering. Today, together, we receive the Eriksson Bonus, and I am honored to share this honor with this old friend and the voice engineering world. This is not only because we are old friends for many years. He had been a member of my doctoral dissertation committee in 1957, 4 and it also symbolized the close cooperation between the United States and Sweden in this area.