Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Synthetic audio : a brief history
  • Speech analysis and synthesis overview
  • Brief history of automatic speech recognition
  • Speech recognition overview
  • Digital signal processing
  • Digital filters and discrete Fourier transform
  • Pattern classification
  • Statistical pattern classification
  • Wave basics
  • Acoustic tube modeling of speech production
  • Musical instrument acoustics
  • Room acoustics
  • Ear physiology
  • Psychoacoustics
  • Models of pitch perception
  • Speech perception
  • Human speech recognition
  • The auditory system as a filter bank
  • The cepstrum as a spectral analyzer
  • Linear prediction
  • Feature extraction for ASR
  • Linguistic categories for speech recognition
  • Deterministic sequence recognition for ASR
  • Statistical sequence recognition
  • Statistical model training
  • Discriminant acoustic probability estimation
  • Acoustic model training : further topics
  • Speech recognition and understanding
  • Speech synthesis
  • Pitch detection
  • Vocoders
  • Low-rate vocoders
  • Medium rate and high rate vocoders
  • Perceptual audio coding
  • Some aspects of computer music synthesis
  • Music signal analysis
  • Music retrieval
  • Source separation
  • Speech transformations
  • Speaker verification
  • Speaker diarization