What is the dominant modality for communication between humans?
a) Hear
b) Speech
c) Smell
d) None of these
Explanation: Speech is the dominant modality for communication between humans and reliable speech recognition between machines.
What kind of signal is used in speech
recognition?
a) Electromagnetic signal
b) Electric signal
c) Acoustic signal
d) Radar
Explanation: Acoustic signal is used to identify a sequence of words uttered by a speaker.
What is viewed as problem of probabilistic inference?
a) Speech recognition
b) Speaking
c) Hearing
d) Utterance
Explanation: Speech recognition is viewed as problem of probabilistic inference because different words can sound the same.
Which specifies the prior probability of each utterance?
a) Sound model
b) Model
c) Language model
d) All of these
Explanation: Because it contains the group of words that can help to specify the prior probability of each utterance.
Which model gives the probability of each word following each other word?
a) Bigram model
b) Diagram model
c) Gram model
d) Speech model
Explanation: Bigram model gives the probability of each word following each other word in speech recognition.
What is the study of how the language sounds?
a) Speechology
b) Biology
c) Trilogy
d) Phonology
