KLUWER ACADEMIC PUBLISHERS
TEXT, SPEECH AND LANGUAGE TECHNOLOGY
Volume 8
Series editors: Nancy Ide and Jean Véronis
Techniques in Speech Acoustics
by
Jonathan Harrington
Steve Cassidy
Speech Hearing and Language Research Centre
Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia
"Techniques in Speech Acoustics" provides an introduction to the acoustic
analysis and characteristics of speech sounds. The first part of the book
covers aspects of the source-filter decomposition of speech, spectrographic
analysis, the acoustic theory of speech production and acoustic phonetic
cues. The second part is based on computational techniques for analysing
the acoustic speech signal including digital time and frequency analyses,
formant synthesis, and the linear predictive coding of speech. There is
also an introductory chapter on the classification of acoustic speech
signals which is relevant to aspects of automatic speech and talker
recognition. Included with the book is a CD-ROM containing extensive speech
corpora, the EMU speech analysis tools, extensions to the X-LISP-STAT
programming language that are adapted to speech analysis, and numerous
exercises that are linked to the major themes of the book and which can be
run on Windows-95 and UNIX platforms.
The book and CD-ROM are intended for use as teaching materials on
undergraduate and postgraduate speech acoustics and experimental phonetics
courses; they are also aimed at researchers from phonetics, linguistics,
computer science, psychology and engineering who wish to gain an
understanding of the basis of speech acoustics and its application to
fields such as speech synthesis and automatic speech recognition.
Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht
Hardbound, ISBN 0-7923-5731-0
July 1999, 336 pp.
NLG 250.00 / USD 150.00 / GBP 88.00
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Contents
Preface.
Vowel and Consonant Transcriptions.
Contents of the CD-Rom.
1. The Scope of Speech Acoustics.
2. The Physics of Speech.
3. The Acoustic Theory of Speech Production.
4. Segmental and Prosodic Cues.
5. Time-Domain Analysis.
6. Frequency-Domain Analysis.
7. Digital Formant Synthesis.
8. Linear Prediction of Speech.
9. Classification of Speech Data.
References.
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PREVIOUS VOLUMES
Volume 1: Recent Advances in Parsing Technology
Harry Bunt, Masaru Tomita
Hardbound, ISBN 0-7923-4152-X, 1996
Volume 2: Corpus-Based Methods in Language and Speech Processing
Steve Young, Gerrit Bloothooft
Hardbound, ISBN 0-7923-4463-4, 1997
Volume 3: An introduction to text-to-speech synthesis
Thierry Dutoit
Hardbound, ISBN 0-7923-4498-7, 1997
Volume 4: Exploring textual data
Ludovic Lebart, André Salem and Lisette Berry
Hardbound, ISBN 0-7923-4840-0, December 1997
Volume 5: Time Map Phonology:
Finite State Models and Event Logics in Speech Recognition
Julie Carson-Berndsen
Hardbound, ISBN 0-7923-4883-4, 1997
Volume 6: Predicative Forms in Natural Language and in
Lexical Knowledge Bases
Volume 7: Natural Language Information Retrieval
Tomek Strzalkowski
Hardbound, ISBN 0-7923-5685-3, April 1999
Check the series Web page for order information:
http://www.wkap.nl/series.htm/TLTB
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