Digital Speech Processing: Speech Coding, Synthesis and Recognition

After alm ost three scores of years of basic and applied research, the field of speech processing is, at present, undergoing a rapid growth in terms of both performance and applications and this is fueHed by the advances being made in the areas of microelectronics, computation and algorithm design.Speech processing relates to three aspects of voice communications: —Speech Coding and transmission which is mainly concerned with man—to­ man voice communication. —Speech Synthesis which deals wi...