Springer Handbook of Speech Processing

Springer Handbook

of Speech Processing

Springer Handbooks provide

a concise compilation of approved

key information on methods of

research, general principles, and

functional relationships in physi-

cal sciences and engineering. The

world’s leading experts in the fields

online content) and other systematic

and approved recent publications of

physical and technical information.

The volumes are designed to be

useful as readable desk reference

books to give a fast and comprehen-

sive overview and easy retrieval of

essential reliable key information,

including tables, graphs, and bibli-

ographies. References to extensive

Editors:

Jacob Benesty

800 de la Gauchetiere Ouest, Suite 6900

Montreal, Quebec, H5A 1K6, Canada

benesty@emt.inrs.ca

M. Mohan Sondhi

Avayalabs Research

Murray Hill, NJ 07974, USA

arden_huang@ieee.org

ISBN: 978-3-540-49125-5 e-ISBN: 978-3-540-49127-9

Electrical and Computer

Engineering

Rutgers University

technologies: (i) sampled-data theory and representation of information signals (which

led directly to digital telecommunication that provides signal quality independent of

transmission distance); (ii) electronic binary computation (aided in early implementa-

tion by pulse-circuit techniques from radar design); and, (iii) invention of solid-state

devices for exquisite control of electronic current (transistors – which now, through mi-

croelectronic materials, scale to systems of enormous size and complexity). This timely

convergence was soon followed by optical fiber methods for broadband information

transport.

These advances impact an important aspect of human activity – information ex-

change. And, over man’s existence, speech has played a principal role in human

element, and new understanding from diverse research sectors can be brought to bear.

Editors-in-Chief Benesty, Sondhi and Huang have organized a timely engineer-

ing handbook to answer this need. They have assembled a remarkable compendium

of current knowledge in speech processing. And, this accumulated understanding can

be focused upon enlarging the human capacity to deal with a world ever increasing in

complexity. Benesty, Sondhi and Huang are renowned researchers in their own right,

and they have attracted an international cadre of over 80 fellow authors and collab-

orators who constitute a veritable Who’s Who of world leaders in speech processing

research. The resulting book provides under one cover authoritative treatments that

commence with the basic physics and psychophysics of speech and hearing, and range

Warren, New Jersey Jim Flanagan

October 2007