Course Content
Speech production and acoustic phonetics, speech perception. Speech analysis: time and frequency domain techniques for pitch and format estimation, cepstral and LPC analysis. Speech synthesis: articulatory, formant, and LPC synthesis, voice response and text-to-speech systems. Applications: data compression, vecoders, speech enhancement, speech recognition, speaker recognition, aids for the speech and hearing impairments.
Text / References
- 1 D O"Shaughnessy, Speech Communication: Human and Machine, Addison Wesley, 1987.L R Rabiner and RW Schafer, Digital Processing of speech Signals, Prentice Hall, 1978.J L Flanagan, Speech Analysis, Synthesis and Perception, Springer Verlag, 1972.