Speech and Audio Processing

Speech and Audio Processing is a text targeted towards the final year undergraduate Speech Processing course and PG students in ECE, CS, and IT streams. This book aims at explaining the basic concepts in a clear-cut and simplified manner. It begins with the human speech production mechanism and then goes on to the fundamental parameters of speech such as pitch frequency, formants, spectral features like log spectrum, 3-D spectrogram, cepstral features, MFCC, linear prediction coefficients, transform-domain parameters, template matching techniques, etc. It deals with applications like speech coding, speech recognition, speaker recognition, and speech synthesis.