Abstract: A text processing system has display of text as a page of characters. The user interface comprises a set of editing actions that are activatable by mouse and/or keyboard actuations. Furthermore, secondary display modes are provided for audio or fax, which can be edited by at least a subset of the text editing actions. Representation of audio is as pseudo characters.

Abstract: In a method of and an apparatus for the segmentation of speech, an acoustic speech signal is converted into N signals S.sub.i (f), each signal pertaining to a time interval i of N successive time intervals (1.ltoreq.i.ltoreq.N). For successive time intervals i a function c.sub.ij (FIG. 7) is then derived which is a measure of the agreement between the signals in the time intervals i and j. The middle m.sub.i of the pertaining function C.sub.ij is determined for each time interval i and those values i are determined which at least approximately correspond to zero-axis crossings with the same sign in a function d.sub.i (see FIG. 3b), d.sub.i indicating the difference between m.sub.i and i. The signal segmented in this way can be used for the derivation of diphones so that a library of diphones can be built up (see FIG. 1), or it can be used for the recognition of the speech utterance (see FIG. 2).

Abstract: In a method of and a system for determining the variation of a speech parameter, for example, the pitch, in a speech signal, values ms(i,j) and coupling vectors v(i,j) are calculated for time instants i and a number of values j of the speech parameter f.sub.j for each time instant i by means of an optimization algorithm. Of the values ms(m,j) associated with the last time instant i=m, the optimum (that is to say the smallest or, on the contrary, the largest) value is determined. By use of the coupling vectors, the variation of the speech parameter as a function of time can be obtained by means of a back-tracking procedure. In the calculation of the values ms(i,j), inter alia, a cost parameter k is taken into account which is a measure of the deviation of the speech parameter f.sub.j (i) at the time instant i with respect to a predicted value for the speech parameter at the time instant i.