Signal Processing of Speech

Name: Signal Processing of Speech
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ISBN: 9780070479555

ISBN-10: 0070479550

ISBN-13: 9780070479555

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Authors: F. J. Owens

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This is an introduction and brief overview of the techniques and algorithms used in the design of speech systems. The author focuses on signal processing, and briefly describes the roles of other disciplines such as electronics, computing science, linguistics and physiology.

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List price: $35.00
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Companies, The
Binding: Hardcover
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.50" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.880
Language: English

Preface
The Nature of Speech	p. 1
Mechanism of speech production	p. 3
Source-filter model of speech production	p. 5
Speech sounds	p. 7
Co-articulation and prosody	p. 9
Time waveforms and frequency spectra	p. 11
The human auditory system	p. 13
Digital Speech	p. 17
Sampling	p. 18
Pre-sampling filter	p. 21
Quantisation	p. 22
Uniform quantisation	p. 23
Logarithmic quantisation	p. 25
Adaptive quantisation	p. 28
Differential quantisation (DPCM)	p. 29
Adaptive differential quantisation (ADPCM)	p. 30
Delta modulation	p. 31
Parametric Speech Analysis	p. 35
Pre-emphasis	p. 36
Filter banks for short-time spectral analysis	p. 37
Discrete Fourier transform (DFT)	p. 44
Fast Fourier transform (FFT)	p. 50
Cepstral analysis of speech	p. 53
The autocorrelation function	p. 58
Linear predictive analysis (LPA)	p. 59
Pitch-synchronous analysis	p. 67
Feature Extraction	p. 70
Short-time energy function	p. 70
Zero-crossing rate	p. 71
Endpoint detection	p. 72
Vector quantisation	p. 72
Formant tracking	p. 74
Pitch extraction	p. 78
Gold-Rabiner pitch extractor	p. 79
Autocorrelation methods	p. 81
The SIFT algorithm	p. 84
Post-processing of pitch contours	p. 85
Phonetic analysis	p. 85
Speech Synthesis	p. 88
History of speech synthesis	p. 88
Formant synthesisers	p. 92
Linear predictive synthesisers	p. 100
Copy synthesis	p. 101
Phoneme synthesis	p. 102
Concatenation of multi-phonemic units	p. 107
Text-to-speech synthesis	p. 108
Articulatory speech synthesis	p. 111
Speech Coding	p. 122
Sub-band coding	p. 123
Transform coding	p. 125
Channel Vocoder	p. 127
Formant vocoder	p. 129
Cepstral vocoder	p. 130
Linear predictive vocoders	p. 130
The LPC-10 algorithm	p. 132
Multi-pulse and RELP vocoders	p. 134
Vector quantiser coders	p. 136
Automatic Speech Recognition	p. 138
Problems in ASR	p. 138
Dynamic time-warping (DTW)	p. 140
Isolated word recognition	p. 141
Pattern matching	p. 141
Speaker-independent recognition	p. 146
Pattern classification (decision rule)	p. 147
Connected-word recognition	p. 147
Hidden Markov models	p. 152
Word recognition using HMMs	p. 155
Training hidden Markov models	p. 162
Speaker identification/verification	p. 163
Future trends	p. 166
Front-end processing	p. 167
Hidden Markov models	p. 168
Neural networks	p. 169
Speech understanding	p. 171
References	p. 174
Index	p. 176
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