Computer Speech
Search in google:
This new edition of Computer Speech is an introduction to multimedia speech applications that is also suitable for nonspecialists. New material treats such contemporary subjects as automatic speech recognition and speaker verification for banking by computer and privileged (medical, military, diplomatic) information and control access. The book also focuses on speech and audio compression for mobile communication and the Internet. The importance of subjective quality criteria is stressed. A brief history of speech research summarizes the development from the first talking machines in 18th-century Europe to modern x-ray methods of articulatory analysis. The book also contains introductions to human monaural and binaural hearing, and the basic concepts of signal analysis. Beyond speech processing, this revised and extended new edition of Computer Speech gives an overview of natural language technology and presents the nuts and bolts of state-of-the-art speech dialogue systems.
1Introduction12A brief history of speech233Speech recognition and speaker identification414Speech dialogue systems and natural language processing675Speech compression1076Speech synthesis1297Speech production1358The speech signal1499Hearing15310Binaural hearing - listening with both ears17911Basic signal concepts207AAcoustic theory and modeling of the vocal tract247BDirect relations between cepstrum and predictor coefficients269
