Hi,

congratulations for this valuable project!

I'd like to start experimenting with voice processing in order to build an automated language recognition engine.

I'm very new to this area but I can imagine a simple processing system that performs phoneme extraction from voice file, and then use an n-gram regognition system. Is the "accoustic model" of a language the right starting point for my approach?

Vincent

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I suggest you to get some background in ASR first, read Spoken Language Processing by Huang and others:

 http://dsp-book.narod.ru/SLP1.djvu

 Rabiner's tutorial or even the HTK book.

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Hi Vincent, 

Another good reference/textbook is: 

SPEECH and LANGUAGE PROCESSING: An Introduction to Natural Language Processing, Computational Linguistics, and Speech Recognition, By  Daniel Jurafsky and  James H. Martin,

The second edition draft chapters are available for download in pdf format.

You might also look through the archives of comp.speech.research and/or the HTK email archives (you need to be registered with HTK) to see if anyone has already done some work in this area.

Good luck! 

Ken 

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