ABSTRACT
Phonetics, as the physical and biological sciences of speech sounds, was introduced in Chapter 7. It studies facts and mechanisms of speech production and speech perception, and expands a diverse scope of physiology, acoustics, and psychology as specifically related to the unique human speech process. Computational phonetics is a sub-discipline of phonetics that applies computational techniques to solve complex problems in phonetics; it is also a discipline of computing that applies the principles and theories of phonetics to solve problems in speech technology, speech recognition and speech synthesis.
