Introduction to papers on speech recognition and perception from an articulatory point of view.

The following group of papers resulted from a special session entitled Speech Recognition and Perception from an Articulatory Point of View that was held during the spring 1994 meeting of the Acoustical Society of America in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Organization of the session began when Richard McGowan, Terry Nearey, and Juergen Schroeter invited speakers to give papers and critiques on the role of articulation in human perception and machine recognition. Presentations were invited from three speakers or groups of speakers who were representative of the three speech areas in the Society: production, perception, and processing. One talk was given by Björn Lindblom, another was given by John Ohala, and the third by Rick Rose, Juergen Schroeter, Mohan Sondhi, and Oded Ghitza. The invited critiquers for the Lindblom paper were Ken Stevens, Robert Remez, and Bishnu Atal; for the Rose et al. paper, Roger Moore, Joe Perkell, and Terry Nearey; and for the Ohala paper, Mary Beckman, Douglas O'Shaughnessy, and Carol Fowler. These people created a very interesting and provocative session. Robert Fox, associate editor of the speech perception section of the Journal, initiated publication of and edited the papers that appear here. Written versions of the invited papers are included here, as well as the critiques by Stevens, Remez, Nearey, Moore, and O'Shaughnessy. Because it was felt that Carol Fowler's view of the importance of articulation in speech perception was not sufficiently aired in a short critique, she was asked to present her views in a longer paper. © 1996 Acoustical Society of America. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]