Speech Recognition
• Question #2: What words did the speaker intend to
express with those sounds? P(words|signal)
– “It’s not a porch.  It’s a …”
– homophones (e.g. “0+2=2. One and one sum to two
too.”)
– noise (focusing amidst multiple conversations)
– segmentation (Three string walk into a bar…)
– dialects (tow-may-tow, tow-mah-tow)
– coarticulation (tah-may-tow, tow-may-tow)