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Contents

Preface

Part 1 Introduction to Materials Physics
1.1 Crystallography . . 2
1.2 Quantum mechanics . . 10
1.3 Solid state physics . . 34
1.4 X-ray diffraction . . 50
1.5 Thermal properties of solids . . 73
1.6 Mechanical properties of solids . . 83

Part 2 Dielectric Properties of Materials
2.1 Dielectric properties . . 91
2.2 Polanzability . . 107
2.3 Ferroelectric and piezoelectric materials . . 116
2.4 Dielectric breakdown . . 127
2.5 Examples of dielectrics . . 132

Part 3 Magnetic Properties of Materials
3.1 Magnetic field . . 141
3.2 Magnetic moment . . 148
3.3 Magnetic properties . . 157
3.4 Ferromagnetism . . 188
3.5 Superconductivity . . 188

Index . . 193

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