Techniques in Speech Acoustics

Techniques in Speech Acoustics by J. Harrington, S. Cassidy.

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....

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Main Authors: Harrington, J. (Author), Cassidy, S. (Author)
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 1999.
Edition:1st ed. 1999.
Series:Text, Speech and Language Technology, 8
Springer eBook Collection.
Subjects:
Computational linguistics.
Signal processing.
Image processing.
Speech processing systems.
Acoustics.
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Table of Contents:
  • 1 The Scope of Speech Acoustics
  • 1.1 What is speech acoustics?
  • 1.2 The variable nature of speech
  • 1.3 Experimental designs in speech acoustics
  • 1.4 Some key areas of research in speech acoustics
  • 2 The Physics of Speech
  • 2.1 Speech waveforms
  • 2.2 Frequency analysis
  • 3 The Acoustic Theory of Speech Production
  • 3.1 The source-filter decomposition of speech
  • 3.2 The acoustic source in speech production
  • 3.3 The acoustic filter in speech production
  • 3.4 Vocal tract losses
  • 3.5 Radiated sound pressure
  • 3.6 The composite model
  • 4 Segmental and Prosodic Cues
  • 4.1 Vowels
  • 4.2 Oral stops
  • 4.3 Nasal consonants
  • 4.4 Fricatives
  • 4.5 Approximants
  • 4.6 Prosody and juncture
  • 5 Time-Domain Analysis
  • 5.1 Sampling and quantisation
  • 5.2 Definition of a digital signal
  • 5.3 Simple operations on signals
  • 5.4 Windowing signals
  • 5.5 Some common time-domain parameters
  • 5.6 Convolution and time-domain filtering
  • 6 Frequency-Domain Analysis
  • 6.1 Digital sinusoids
  • 6.2 The discrete Fourier transform
  • 6.3 Spectra derived from the DFT
  • 6.4 Some points of procedure in applying a DFT
  • 6.5 Spectral parameterisations
  • 6.6 Frequency-domain filtering
  • 7 Digital Formant Synthesis
  • 7.1 Core structure of a formant synthesiser
  • 7.2 Digital considerations
  • 7.3 Periodic excitation
  • 7.4 Formant filter
  • 7.5 Combining the source with the filter
  • 7.6 Parallel structure
  • 8 Linear Prediction of Speech
  • 8.1 LPC and its relationship to digital speech
  • 8.2 Techniques for calculating the LPC coefficients
  • 8.3 Analysis of the error signal
  • 8.4 LPC-smoothed spectra and formants
  • 8.5 Area functions and reflection coefficients
  • 8.6 Speech synthesis from LPC-parameters
  • 9 Classification of Speech Data
  • 9.1 Speech spaces and distance measures
  • 9.2 Distributions of speech sounds
  • 9.3 Discriminant functions and classification
  • 9.4 Classification experiments
  • 9.5 Classifying signals in time
  • 9.6 Data reduction
  • References.

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