Speech and Audio Signal Processing: Processing and Perception of Speech and Music [Paperback]

Ben Gold (Author), Nelson Morgan (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0471351547 | ISBN-13: 978-0471351542 | Publication Date: August 5, 1999 | Edition: 1

Speech and music are the most basic means of adult human communication. As technology advances and increasingly sophisticated tools become available to use with speech and music signals, scientists can study these sounds more effectively, and invent new ways of applying them for the benefit of humankind. This book includes coverage of the physiology and psychoacoustics of hearing as well as the results from research on pitch and speech perception, vocoding methods and information on many aspects of automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems. The authors have made use of their own research in these fields, as well as the methods and results of many other contributors.

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Helps readers develop an intuitive understanding of audio signal processing

Acclaimed for its breadth of coverage as well as its clear, accessible presentation, Speech and Audio Signal Processing examines how machines and humans process audio signals, with an emphasis on speech and music. It begins with basic principles and then explains how these principles set the foundation for a wide range of applications. Moreover, the book is organized into a series of short chapters, offering readers a succinct overview of the range of topics that together represent the current state of knowledge in the field.

This Second Edition brings the book fully up to date with the explosive growth in audio processing technology, including the latest advances in digital music processing and distribution. New topics include:

• Psychoacoustic audio coding, examining MP3 and related audio coding schemes that are based on the psychoacoustic masking of quantization noise

• Music transcription, explaining how notes, beats, and chords can be automatically derived from music signals

• Music information retrieval, exploring audio-based genre classification, artist and style identification, and similarity estimation

• Audio source separation, describing multi-microphone beamforming, blind source separation, and perception-inspired techniques

Throughout the book, the authors present both human and machine strategies for accomplishing audio processing tasks. Readers will discover that, in many cases, human strategies can provide the inspiration for the development of machine strategies.

Speech and Audio Signal Processing is recommended for anyone who needs to understand the technologies underlying some of today's most cutting-edge applications, including speech recognition, audio compression, music synthesis, and diarization. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.

About the Author

The late Ben Gold consulted at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Lincoln Laboratory and taught at the University of California at Berkeley. He was the author of Digital Processing of Signals and the coauthor of Theory and Applications of Digital Signal Processing. Dr. Gold was an IEEE Fellow, member of the National Academy of Engineering, and recipient of several IEEE awards.

Nelson Morgan is the Director of the International Computer Science Institute, an independent, not-for profit research laboratory affiliated with the University of California at Berkeley. Dr. Morgan is also Professor-in-Residence in the Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences Department at UC Berkeley. Dr. Morgan is an IEEE Fellow.

Dan Ellis is Associate Professor in the Electrical Engineering Department of Columbia University. Dr. Ellis's Laboratory for Recognition and Organization of Speech and Audio (LabROSA) investigates how to extract high-level information from audio, including speech recognition, music description, and environmental sound processing. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.

Product Details

• Paperback: 560 pages
• Publisher: Wiley; 1 edition (August 5, 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0471351547
• ISBN-13: 978-0471351542
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 7.5 x 1.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.5 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,430,281 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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19 of 20 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Speech and Audio Signal Processing: Processing and Perceptio, March 7, 2000

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Shihab A. Shamma (College Park, MD, USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Speech and Audio Signal Processing: Processing and Perception of Speech and Music (Paperback)

This is a book much needed in the speech and audio community because of its unique perspective on these topics. By their very nature, speech, music and other audio signals are only fully understood if one takes into account their perception, production, and the context within whcih they exist (language, symphony). To appreciate what to process about such signals, the scientist must have a broad appreciation of linguistics, hearing, vocal tract models, and the brain in general, in addition to the standard engineering tools and approaches. This is why this book is valuable. It indeed attempts to reach out to all these fields with just enough details to inspire the reader, and to provide links to existing more detailed literature. The book is well written, full of excellent illustrations, and it was the perfect choice for a class to graduate students in the Electrical Engineering Department where I teach at the University of Maryland. I highly recommend it.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Much breadth but little depth, December 20, 2002

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Rajesh S. Raghavan (Baltimore, MD 21234) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Speech and Audio Signal Processing: Processing and Perception of Speech and Music (Paperback)

There are many good books on speech processing, but not too many also cover music processing. In that sense, this book is good. However, the major shortcoming of this book is that in its attempt to cover many topics, it doesn't really cover any topics in great detail. The material in this book is merely a good introduction, but one is forced to go to the cited references to find more detail on specific subjects. My overall feeling on this book is rather neutral. If you are just interested in speech processing, there are other books out there which have better coverage. But I am still look for a good book that covers the signal processing of music.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great, but don't buy it here...., September 29, 2001

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David Benson "dave_benson" (Aberdeen) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Speech and Audio Signal Processing: Processing and Perception of Speech and Music (Paperback)

The basic purpose of this book is to understand sound well enough to be able to perform speech recognition, but it also contains a lot of material relevant to music recognition and synthesis. By some quirk of international pricing, the price of this book in the UK is about half what it is in the USA, so it may be worth your while checking out UK online bookstores such as amazon.co.uk or the UK branch of bol.com for this one.