Contents

Preface to the First Edition xiii
Preface to the Second Edition xv
List of Abbreviations xvii
1. Human Speech Communication 1
2. Mechanisms and Models of Human Speech Production 11
3. Mechanisms and Models of the Human Auditory System 33
4. Digital Coding of Speech 47
5. Message Synthesis from Stored Human Speech Components 67
6. Phonetic synthesis by rule 81
7. Speech Synthesis from Textual or Conceptual Input 93
8. Introduction to automatic speech recognirtion: template matching 109
9. Introduction to stochastic modeling 127
10. Introduction to front-end analysis for automatic speech recognitions 159
11. Practical techniques for improving speech recognition performance 169
12. Automatic speech recognition for large vocabularies 183
13. Neural networks for speech recognition 213
14. Recognition of speaker characteristics 219
15. Applications and performance of current technology 231
16. Future research directions in speech synthesis and recognition 245
17. Futher Reading 255
References 265
Solutions to Excercises 277
Glossary 283
Index 287