Speech processing addresses various scientific and technological areas. It includes speech analysis and variable rate coding, in order to store or transmit speech. It also covers speech synthesis, especially from text, speech recognition, including speaker and language identification, and spoken language understanding.
This book covers the following topics: how to realize speech production and perception systems, how to synthesize and understand speech using state-of-the-art methods in signal processing, pattern recognition, stochastic modelling computational linguistics and human factor studies.

This comprehensive  examination  of speech processing addresses the technological aspects of speech production and perception systems, as well as the science behind  the technology. The primary concepts  include speech analysis, the storing and transmitting of speech via variable rate coding, the synthesis of speech from text sources, and speech  recognition, including speaker and language identification plus spoken language understanding. The explication of these processes  includes the  state-of-the-art methods utilized in signal processing, pattern recognition, stochastic modelling and computational linguistics, and human factor studies.