Fundamentals and Applications of Modern Speech Technology

Author: Cai Lianhong
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Publish Date: 2003-11-01
Features:
Speech Processing – A Comprehensive Emerging Discipline
Speech Synthesis – Teaching Computers to Speak
Speech Recognition – Enabling Computers to Understand Human Language
Speech Coding – Removing Redundancy and Compressing Data
This book provides a comprehensive introduction to the research and advancements in modern speech processing. It covers the fundamentals, methods, and applications of speech processing, serving as a specialized monograph on the subject. The book is divided into 8 chapters. Chapter 1 outlines the problems and directions of speech processing research; Chapter 2 introduces the fundamentals of digital signal processing and speech signal processing. Chapter 3 briefly introduces the basic knowledge of speech and corpus-related content from an engineering perspective; Chapter 4 discusses speech coding algorithms and international standards; Chapter 5 covers the principles of speech synthesis and text-to-speech (TTS) systems; Chapter 6 presents the fundamentals of speech recognition; Chapter 7 introduces visual speech and Chinese visual phonetics; and Chapter 8 explores typical speech systems and their applications.
Speech signal processing is a significant research direction in computer applications. This book primarily introduces the fundamental knowledge of speech signal processing as well as related new methods and technologies. The content is carefully selected, with an approach that balances in-depth theory and practical applications. The book is suitable as a textbook for graduate and undergraduate students in speech processing and related disciplines, as well as a reference for researchers and engineers. It outlines the problems and directions of speech processing research, introduces the fundamentals of digital signal processing and speech signal processing, the principles of speech synthesis and text-to-speech systems, and the basics of speech recognition, among other topics.