Language and Speech Processing

Speech processing addresses various scientific and technologicalareas. It includes speech analysis and variable rate coding, inorder to store or transmit speech. It also covers speech synthesis, especially from text, speech recognition, including speaker andlanguage identification, and spoken language understanding. This book covers the following topics: how to realize speechproduction and perception systems, how to synthesize and understandspeech using state-of-the-art methods in signal processing, patternrecognition, stochastic modelling computational linguistics andhuman factor studies.