Most of you may know that about 90% of the technology available is idle; in fact even more. Probably more than 95% of computing power is idle.

In last class we discussed two important ideas:

  1. Role of speech technology
  2. Signal -- to -- Symbol

Scope of Speech Technology for this course

  1. ❌ Language Translation
  2. ❌ Coding
  3. ❌ Transmission (Tx)
  4. ❌ Communication Technology in Speech (here it deals with coding & Tx)
  5. ✅ Signal to Symbol Transformation
  6. ✅ Language Knowledge
  7. ✅ Suprasegmental Knowledge (aka prosody)