Building on the success of the first edition
Digital Speech
offers extensive new, updated and revised material based upon the latest research. This
Second Edition
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.
Features new chapters on
Pitch Estimation and Voice-Unvoiced Classification of Speech, Harmonic Speech Coding
and
Multimode Speech Coding
Presents a comprehensively revised chapter entitled
Analysis by Synthesis LPC Coding
including specific examples of popular speech coders such as CELP (Code-Excited Linear Predictive) Coding
Contains an updated chapter on Efficient LPC Quantization Methods including MSVQ and anti-aliasing filtering
Discusses Voice Activity Detection (VAD) methods
Offers expanded coverage of speech enhancement techniques such as echo cancellation and noise suppression
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.