Speech and Audio Signal Processing: Processing and Perception of Speech and Music (Hardcover)

~ Ben Gold (Author), Nelson Morgan (Author) "AN UNDERSTANDING of the goals and methods of the past can help us to envision the advances of the future..." (more)
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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.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 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.com Sales Rank: #1,095,403 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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21 of 22 people found the following review helpful:

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

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

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

By	Rajesh S. Raghavan (Beavercreek, OH 45431) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

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

By	David Benson "dave_benson" (Aberdeen) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

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.