ABSTRACT

A Practical Handbook of Speech Coders offers in-depth treatment of the basics of speech coding plus the innovations to the basic methods that make the coders useful and efficient. It describes the fundamentals of auditory information processing and how they relate to speech coding, and shows readers how to evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of all publicly available codes and choose the right one. It explains how to measure the quality of speech coders with objective, subjective, and perceptual measures. The book also shows engineers how to tailor existing speech coders and provides the building blocks to create new coders.

chapter Chapter 1|3 pages

Introduction

chapter Chapter 2|27 pages

Speech Production

chapter Chapter 3|18 pages

Speech Analysis Techniques

chapter Chapter 4|14 pages

Linear Prediction Vocal Tract Modeling

chapter Chapter 5|15 pages

Pitch Extraction

chapter Chapter 6|11 pages

Auditory Information Processing

chapter Chapter 7|25 pages

Quantization and Waveform Coders

chapter Chapter 8|10 pages

Quality Evaluation

chapter Chapter 9|17 pages

Voice Coding Concepts

chapter Chapter 10|18 pages

Linear Prediction Analysis by Synthesis

chapter Chapter 11|36 pages

Mixed Excitation Coding

chapter Chapter 12|13 pages

Perceptual Speech Coding