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From: ajr@eng.cam.ac.uk (Tony Robinson)
Newsgroups: comp.dsp
Subject: Re: comp.speech - why not?
Keywords: I'll tell you why
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Date: 1 Nov 90 15:32:56 GMT
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In article <29320@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU> jbuck@galileo.berkeley.edu (Joe Buck)
writes regarding a the proposal for a newsgroup to discuss speech issues:

>comp.dsp is currently small enough that there is plenty of room for people's
>postings about speech analysis and synthesis, speech recognition, speaker
>recognition, the theory of speech production and reception by human beings,
>etc.

Yes, but whereas your first two subjects, "speech analysis and synthesis" may
or may not use DSP techniques, the remainder, "speech recognition, speaker
recognition, the theory of speech production and reception by human beings"
are not really DSP topics at all.  So comp.speech would cover much more than
the speech issues you see in comp.dsp.

There is discussion in comp.ai.neural-nets about speech recognition and
databases, talk in rec.music.synth about basic waveform techniques and lots
of talk in misc.handicapped on the application of speech synthesis.  Speech
also entends into spoken language, and that is discussed in sci.lang.


Tony Robinson