Author | Harrington, Jonathan. author |
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Title | Techniques in Speech Acoustics [electronic resource] / by Jonathan Harrington, Steve Cassidy |
Imprint | Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 1999 |
Connect to | http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-4657-9 |
Descript | XIV, 319 p. online resource |
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