Schroeder Computer Speech

Recognition, Compression, Synthesis
Erscheinungsjahr 2013
ISBN: 978-3-662-03861-1
Verlag: Springer
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, Band 35, 319 Seiten, eBook

Reihe: Springer Series in Information Sciences

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.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Schroeder, Manfred R.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Quast, H.

Strube, H.W.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction.- 2. A Brief History of Speech.- 3. Speech Recognition and Speaker Identification.- 4. Speech Compression.- 5. Speech Synthesis.- 6. Speech Production.- 7. The Speech Signal.- 8. Hearing.- 9. Binaural Hearing — Listening with Both Ears.- 10. Basic Signal Concepts.- A. Acoustic Theory and Modeling of the Vocal Tract.- A.1 Introduction.- A.2 Acoustics of a Hard-Walled, Lossless Tube.- A.2.1 Field Equations.- A.2.2 Time-Invariant Case.- A.2.3 Formants as Eigenvalues.- A.2.4 Losses and Nonrigid Walls.- A.3 Discrete Modeling of a Tube.- A.3.1 Time-Domain Modeling.- A.3.2 Frequency-Domain Modeling, Two-Port Theory.- A.3.3 Tube Models and Linear Prediction.- A.4 Notes on the Inverse Problem.- A.4.1 Analytic and Numerical Methods.- A.4.2 Empirical Methods.- B. Direct Relations Between Cepstrum and Predictor Coefficients.- B.1 Derivation of the Main Result.- B.2 Direct Computation of Predictor Coefficients from the Cepstrum.- B.3 A Simple Check.- B.4 Connection with Algebraic Roots and Symmetric Functions.- B.5 Connection with Statistical Moments and Cumulants.- B.6 Computational Complexity.- B.7 An Application of Root-Power Sums to Pitch Detection.- References.- General Reading.- Selected Journals.- A Sampling of Societies and Major Meetings.- Glossary of Speech and Computer Terms.- Name Index.- The Author.