• DocumentCode
    2251305
  • Title

    Whole-word phonetic distances and the PGPfone alphabet

  • Author

    Juola, Patrick

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Exp. Psychol., Oxford Univ.
  • Volume
    1
  • fYear
    1996
  • fDate
    3-6 Oct 1996
  • Firstpage
    98
  • Abstract
    Like many cryptosystems, PGPfone requires a method of reliably exchanging binary data over noisy phone lines. This paper describes a method of encoding binary data into a “radio alphabet” using a feature-based distance metric to measure phonetic confusibility, then using this metric in a genetic algorithm to select appropriate words from a larger list of candidate words. This work indicates several larger issues that should be addressed in any (human) language engineering project
  • Keywords
    cryptography; encoding; natural languages; speech coding; speech processing; PGPfone alphabet; binary data encoding; cryptosystems; feature-based distance metric; genetic algorithm; language engineering project; noisy phone lines; phonetic confusibility; whole-word phonetic distances; Colored noise; Cryptography; Databases; Encoding; Frequency measurement; Human factors; Psychology; Reliability engineering; Software engineering; Speech;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Spoken Language, 1996. ICSLP 96. Proceedings., Fourth International Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Philadelphia, PA
  • Print_ISBN
    0-7803-3555-4
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/ICSLP.1996.607046
  • Filename
    607046