Speech synthesis and recognition

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