Description
Book SynopsisToday the wireless communications industry is heavily dependent upon advanced speech coding techniques, while the integration of personal computers and voice technology is poised for growth. In this revised and updated second edition, a timely overview of the science of speech processing helps you keep pace with these rapidly developing advances.
Students of electrical engineering, along with computer scientists, systems engineers, linguists, audiologists, and psychologists, will find in this one concise volume an interdisciplinary introduction to speech communication. This reference book addresses how humans generate and interpret speech and how machines simulate human speech performance and code speech for efficient transmission. With a skillful blending of the basic principles and technical detail underlying speech communication, this broad-based book offers you essential insights into the field.
You will learn state-of-the-art techniques to analyze, code,
Trade Review"A cohesive, even-handed discussion of speech production and perception?should help readers understand speech communication better than is possible with other texts." (
Zentralblatt fur Mathametik, 1008)
Table of ContentsPreface.
Acknowledgments.
Acronyms in Speech Communications.
Important Developments in Speech Communications.
Introduction.
Review of Mathematics for Speech Processing.
Speech Production and Acoustic Phonetics.
Hearing.
Speech Perception.
Speech Analysis.
Coding of Speech Signals.
Speech Enhancement.
Speech Synthesis.
Automatic Speech Recognition.
Speaker Recognition.
Appendix: Computer Sites for Help on Speech Communication.
References.
Index.
About the Author.
