Ch. 1 Introduction 1
Pt. I Historical Background
Ch. 2 Synthetic Audio: A Brief History 9
Ch. 3 Speech Analysis and Synthesis Overview 20
Ch. 4 Brief History of Automatic Speech Recognition 39
Ch. 5 Speech-Recognition Overview 56
Pt. II Mathematical Background
Ch. 6 Digital Signal Processing 69
Ch. 7 Digital Filters and Discrete Fourier Transform 83
Ch. 8 Pattern Classification 103
Ch. 9 Statistical Pattern Classification 119
Pt. III Acoustic
Ch. 10 Wave Basics 137
Ch. 11 Acoustic Tube Modeling of Speech Production 148
Ch. 12 Music Production 154
Ch. 13 Room Acoustics 175
Pt. IV Auditory Perception
Ch. 14 Ear Physiology 189
Ch. 15 Psychoacoustics 205
Ch. 16 Models of Pitch Perception 214
Ch. 17 Speech Perception 228
Ch. 18 Human Speech Recognition 246
Pt. V Speech Features
Ch. 19 The Auditory System as a Filter Bank 257
Ch. 20 The Cepstrum as a Spectral Analyzer 271
Ch. 21 Linear Prediction 280
Pt. VI Automatic Speech Recognition
Ch. 22 Feature Extraction for ASR 295
Ch. 23 Linguistic Categories for Speech Recognition 309
Ch. 24 Deterministic Sequence Recognition for ASR 324
Ch. 25 Statistical Sequence Recognition 337
Ch. 26 Statistical Model Training 351
Ch. 27 Discriminant Acoustic Probability Estimation 367
Ch. 28 Speech Recognition and Understanding 380
Pt. VII Synthesis and Coding
Ch. 29 Speech Synthesis 395
Ch. 30 Pitch Detection 415
Ch. 31 Vocoders 431
Ch. 32 Low-Rate Vocoders 451
Ch. 33 Medium-Rate and High-Rate Vocoders 463
Pt. VIII Other Applications
Ch. 34 Speech Transformations 491
Ch. 35 Some Aspects of Computer Music Synthesis 507
Ch. 36 Speaker Verification 521
Index 531