Communication acoustics Speech Generation: Acoustics Models and Applications (Arild Lacroix). The Evolution of Digital Audio Technology (John Mourjopoulos). Audio Visual Interaction (Armin Kohlrausch) . Speech and Audio Coding (Ulrich Heute) . Binaural Technique (Dorte Hammerhoei Henrik Moeller). Auditory Virtual Environment (Pedro Novo). Evolutionary Adaptions for Auditory Communication (Georg Klump). A Functional View on the Human Hearing Organ (Herbert Hudde). Modeling of Binaural Hearing (Jonas Braasch). Psychoacoustics and Sound Quality (Hugo Fastl). Semiotics for Engineers (Ute Jekosch). Quality of Transmitted Speech for Humans and Machines (Sebastian Möller)