Digital Speech Coding for Low Bit Rate Communication Systems

Building on the success of the first edition Digital Speech offers extensive new, updated and revised material based upon the latest research. This Second Edition continues to provide the fundamental technical background required for low bit rate speech c...

 The How of Wow A Guide to Giving a Speech That Will Positively Blow'EM Away

You only speak to them for a few minutes. Make sure it doesn't seem (yawn) longer. Have you ever given a speech that people remembered ten years later? Is ten days more like it, or even ten minutes? Even if you're one of the blessed few who are coo...

 Speech Processing for IP Networks Media Resource Control Protocol (MRCP)

Media Resource Control Protocol (MRCP) is a new IETF protocol, providing a key enabling technology that eases the integration of speech technologies into network equipment and accelerates their adoption resulting in exciting and compelling interactive ser...

 Speech Quality of VoIP Assessment and Prediction

Speech Quality of VoIP addresses speech quality of VoIP networks, whilst addressing the implications for the design of VoIP networks and systems. The book bridges the gap between the technical network-world and the (psychoacoustic) world of quality percep...

 Multilingual Speech Processing

Tanja Schultz and Katrin Kirchhoff have compiled a comprehensive overview of speech processing from a multilingual perspective. By taking this all-inclusive approach to speech processing, the editors have included theories, algorithms, and techniques that...

 Digital Speech Transmission Enhancement, Coding and Error Concealment

The enormous advances in digital signal processing (DSP) technology have contributed to the wide dissemination and success of speech communication devices - be it GSM and UMTS mobile telephones, digital hearing aids, or human-machine interfaces. Digital s...

 Developments in Speech Synthesis

With a growing need for understanding the process involved in producing and perceiving spoken language, this timely publication answers these questions in an accessible reference. Containing material resulting from many years' teaching and research, Spee...

 Voice Interface Design Crafting the conversational speech systems

From the voice on the phone, to the voice on the computer, to the voice from the toaster, speech user interfaces are coming into the mainstream and are here to stay forever. Soundly anchored in HCI, cognitive psychology, linguistics, and social psycholog...

  Speech recognition Theory and C++ implementation

Automatic speech recognition (ASR) is the technology behind the voice-triggered computer menus. Users of these systems include private telephone exchanges and real-time, on-line telephone information services. This book introduces the basic principles beh...

 Text to Speech Synthesis New Paradigms and Advances

Recent advances in speech synthesis will enable the development of high-quality natural voice systems with broad application in education, business, entertainment, and medicine. Text to Speech Synthesis is the first book to comprehensively document these ...

 Computer speech Recognition, compression, synthesis

This new edition of Computer Speech is an introduction to multimedia speech applications that is also suitable for nonspecial-ists. New material treats such contemporary subjects as automatic speech recognition and speaker verification for banking by co...

 Design of Speech-Based Devices A Practical Guide

Developments in technology have made it possible for speech output to be used in place of the more usual visual interface in both domestic and commercial devices. Speech can be used in situations where visual attention is occupied, such as when driving a ...

 Speech coding algorithms Foundation and evolution of standardized coders

Speech coding is a highly mature branch of signal processing deployed in products such as cellular phones, communication devices, and more recently, voice over internet protocol This book collects many of the techniques used in speech coding and present...

 Speech and language processing An introduction to natural language processing, computational linguistics, and speech recognition

This book offers a unified vision of speech and language processing, presenting state-of-the-art algorithms and techniques for both speech and text-based processing of natural language. This comprehensive work covers both statistical and symbolic approach...