A Speech Processing System.

This thesis describes the development of a system which was used to study features in continuous speech. The study was limited to English vowels spoken in sentences. The voices of thirteen speakers, both male and female were used in an effort to study features in continuous speech. In particular, the study concentrated on a search for those features which are speaker invariant and those features which have not been studied in the past. This speech processing system was implemented on an IBM 36091 general purpose computer. Data was collected in the UCLA Phonetics Laboratory and at the Systems Development Corporation.