10 of 13 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars
A poor introduction to speech coding, September 19, 2000
By A Customer
This review is from: A Practical Handbook of Speech Coders (Discrete Mathematics and Its Applications) (Hardcover)
Very brief discussion of some aspects of speech coding. Perhaps useful for marketing or business people to learn some terminology; but definitely not sophisticated enough for the technical crowd. The authors include topic like psychoacoustic, which is clearly not a dominant part of today's speech coding techniques, but yet make a whole chapter about it, waste of space and time...
Help other customers find the most helpful reviews
Was this review helpful to you? Yes
No
4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars
... bucks down the toilet if you ask me..., October 10, 2001
By A Customer
This review is from: A Practical Handbook of Speech Coders (Discrete Mathematics and Its Applications) (Hardcover)
The authors gathered some trends and superficial informations from the literature and put them in the form of a "book". It's not worth reading for the serious folks since there is no detail about anything. Web sites and internet addresses provided to find the source code are either disfunctional or obvious, a search session at Yahoo! is much more productive.
Help other customers find the most helpful reviews
Was this review helpful to you? Yes
No