Digital Speech

Building on the success of the first edition <i>Digital Speech</i> offers extensive new, updated and revised material based upon the latest research. This <i>Second Edition</i> continues to provide the fundamental technical background required for low bit rate speech coding and the hottest developments in digital speech coding techniques that are applicable to evolving communication systems. <ul> <li>Features new chapters on <i>Pitch Estimation and Voice-Unvoiced Classification of Speech, Harmonic Speech Coding</i> and <i>Multimode Speech Coding</i></li> <li>Presents a comprehensively revised chapter entitled <i>Analysis by Synthesis LPC Coding</i> including specific examples of popular speech coders such as CELP (Code-Excited Linear Predictive) Coding</li> <li>Contains an updated chapter on Efficient LPC Quantization Methods including MSVQ and anti-aliasing filtering</li> <li>Discusses Voice Activity Detection (VAD) methods</li> <li>Offers expanded coverage of speech enhancement techniques such as echo cancellation and noise suppression</li> </ul> <p>Written by a well-known, highly respected academic, this authoritative volume will be invaluable to practising engineers, network designers, computer scientists and advanced students in communications, electrical and electronic engineering.</p>