Speech and Audio Processing

SERIES EDITOR: B.H. Juang, Georgia Tech

Series ISSN: 1932-121X (print) 1932-1678 (electronic)

	Acoustical Impulse Response Functions of Music Performance Halls Douglas Frey, Rangaraj Rangayyan, Victor Coelho Digital measurement of the analog acoustical parameters of a music performance hall is difficult. The aim of such work is to create a digital acoustical derivation that is an accurate numerical representation of the complex analog characteristics of … Publication Date: 04/01/2013 Read More
	Speech Recognition Algorithms Based on Weighted Finite-State Transducers Takaaki Hori, Atsushi Nakamura This book introduces the theory, algorithms, and implementation techniques for efficient decoding in speech recognition mainly focusing on the Weighted Finite-State Transducer (WFST) approach. The decoding process for speech recognition is viewed as … Publication Date: 01/01/2013 Read More
	DFT-Domain Based Single-Microphone Noise Reduction for Speech Enhancement Richard C. Hendriks, Timo Gerkmann, Jesper Jensen As speech processing devices like mobile phones, voice controlled devices, and hearing aids have increased in popularity, people expect them to work anywhere and at any time without user intervention. However, the presence of acoustical disturbances … Publication Date: 01/01/2013 Read More
	Articulatory Speech Synthesis from the Fluid Dynamics of the Vocal Apparatus Stephen Levinson, Donald W. Davis, Jr., Scott Slimon, Jun Huang, This book addresses the problem of articulatory speech synthesis based on computed vocal tract geometries and the basic physics of sound production in it. Unlike conventional methods based on analysis/synthesis using the well-known source filter mode… Publication Date: 01/01/2012 Read More
	Speech Enhancement in the Karhunen-Loeve Expansion Domain Jacob Benesty, Jingdong Chen, Yiteng Huang This book is devoted to the study of the problem of speech enhancement whose objective is the recovery of a signal of interest (i.e., speech) from noisy observations. Typically, the recovery process is accomplished by passing the noisy observations t… Publication Date: 01/01/2011 Read More
	Sparse Adaptive Filters for Echo Cancellation Constantin Paleologu, Jacob Benesty, Silviu Ciochina Adaptive filters with a large number of coefficients are usually involved in both network and acoustic echo cancellation. Consequently, it is important to improve the convergence rate and tracking of the conventional algorithms used for these applica… Publication Date: 01/01/2010 Read More
	A Perspective on Single-Channel Frequency-Domain Speech Enhancement Jacob Benesty, Yiteng Huang This book focuses on a class of single-channel noise reduction methods that are performed in the frequency domain via the short-time Fourier transform (STFT). The simplicity and relative effectiveness of this class of approaches make them the dominan… Publication Date: 01/01/2011 Read More
	Multi-Pitch Estimation Mads Christensen, Andreas Jakobsson Periodic signals can be decomposed into sets of sinusoids having frequencies that are integer multiples of a fundamental frequency. The problem of finding such fundamental frequencies from noisy observations is important in many speech and audio appl… Publication Date: 01/01/2009 Read More
	Discriminative Learning for Speech Recognition Xiadong He, Li Deng In this book, we introduce the background and mainstream methods of probabilistic modeling and discriminative parameter optimization for speech recognition. The specific models treated in depth include the widely used exponential-family distributions… Publication Date: 01/01/2008 Read More
	Latent Semantic Mapping Jerome R. Bellegarda Latent semantic mapping (LSM) is a generalization of latent semantic analysis (LSA), a paradigm originally developed to capture hidden word patterns in a text document corpus. In information retrieval, LSA enables retrieval on the basis of conceptual… Publication Date: 01/01/2007 Read More
	Dynamic Speech Models Li Deng Speech dynamics refer to the temporal characteristics in all stages of the human speech communication process. This speech “chain” starts with the formation of a linguistic message in a speaker’s brain and ends with the arrival of the message in … Publication Date: 01/01/2006 Read More
	Articulation and Intelligibility Jont B. Allen Immediately following the Second World War, between 1947 and 1955, several classic papers quantified the fundamentals of human speech information processing and recognition. In 1947 French and Steinberg published their classic study on the articulati… Publication Date: 01/01/2005 Read More