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Holmes Book Processing Notes

Task

Process "John Holmes and Wendy Holmes - Speech Synthesis and Recognition" book PDF.

Metadata

  • Title: Speech Synthesis and Recognition, 2nd Edition
  • Authors: John Holmes and Wendy Holmes
  • Year: 2001 (1st ed 1988)
  • Publisher: Taylor & Francis
  • Pages: 317 PDF pages (book pages ~290 + front matter)
  • Directory: Holmes_2001_SpeechSynthesisRecognition
  • PDF page offset: ~18 pages of front matter before book page 1

Strategy

No Task tool available for subagent dispatch. Reading prioritized chapters myself.

  • HIGH: Ch 2 (speech production models), Ch 6 (phonetic synthesis by rule), Ch 7 (TTS from text)
  • MEDIUM: Ch 1 (intro), Ch 5 (concatenative synthesis), Ch 16 (future directions)
  • LOW: Ch 3-4 (auditory/coding), Ch 8-15 (recognition), Ch 17, References

PDF Page Mapping (approximate)

  • Front matter: pages 000-018
  • Ch 1 (p1-10): PDF ~019-028
  • Ch 2 (p11-32): PDF ~029-050
  • Ch 3 (p33-46): PDF ~051-064
  • Ch 4 (p47-66): PDF ~065-084
  • Ch 5 (p67-80): PDF ~085-098
  • Ch 6 (p81-92): PDF ~099-110
  • Ch 7 (p93-108): PDF ~111-126
  • Ch 8 (p109-126): PDF ~127-144
  • Ch 9 (p127-158): PDF ~145-176
  • Ch 10 (p159-168): PDF ~177-186
  • Ch 11 (p169-182): PDF ~187-200
  • Ch 12 (p183-212): PDF ~201-230
  • Ch 13 (p213-218): PDF ~231-236
  • Ch 14 (p219-230): PDF ~237-248
  • Ch 15 (p231-244): PDF ~249-262
  • Ch 16 (p245-254): PDF ~263-272
  • Ch 17 (p255-264): PDF ~273-282
  • References (p265-276): PDF ~283-294
  • Solutions (p277-282): PDF ~295-300
  • Glossary (p283-286): PDF ~301-304
  • Index (p287+): PDF ~305-316

Status

  • Page count determined (317)
  • Page 0 read for metadata
  • Output directory created
  • PDF converted to images (317 pngs)
  • TOC read
  • High-priority chapters read
  • Medium-priority chapters read
  • notes.md written
  • description.md written
  • abstract.md written
  • citations.md written
  • Cross-references done
  • CLAUDE.md updated

Findings

Progress

  • All 317 page PNGs are in papers/Holmes_2001_SpeechSynthesisRecognition/pngs/
  • Chunk reader prompt template at prompts/paper-chunk-reader-holmes.md
  • PDF page offset confirmed: book page N = PDF page N+18 approximately
  • Ch 2 starts at PDF page 029, Ch 6 at ~099, Ch 7 at ~111
  • Started reading Ch 2 (pages 029-032 read) but did not complete any chapters
  • No chunk files written yet
  • Tasks #5-#12 are tracking entries only -- no agents were dispatched on them

What remains

  • Read all chapters (or dispatch chunk readers from team lead)
  • Write chunks, synthesize notes.md, description.md, abstract.md, citations.md
  • Update papers/CLAUDE.md
  • Cross-reference citations