Computer Speech
Subtitle: Recognition, Compression, Synthesis
By: by Manfred R. Schroeder
Series: Springer Series in Information Sciences -- 35; Springer series in information sciences -- 35.
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg; Imprint; Springer
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Berlin, Heidelberg
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Number of pages: 319
ISBN-13: 9783662038611; 9783662038635
Subjects: Telecommunication; Acoustics; Language Translation and Linguistics; User Interfaces and Human Computer Interaction; Networks Communications Engineering; Computer science; Physics; Translators (Computer programs)
Other titles: With Introduction to Hearing and Signal Analysis and a Glossary of Speech and Computer Terms
Description: Computer Speech is an introduction to multimedia speech applications and is suitable for nonspecialists. It 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 focusses 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 rococo 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.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: A Brief History of Speech; title: Speech Recognition and Speaker Identification; title: Speech Compression; title: Speech Synthesis; title: Speech Production; title: The Speech Signal.; title: Hearing; title: Binaural Hearing; title: Listening with Both Ears; title: Basic Signal Concepts; title: Acoustic Theory and Modeling of the Vocal Tract; title: Direct Relations Between Cepstrum and Predictor; title: References.