Springer handbook of speech processing

The twenty-first century is likely to be known as the "communication age" - an era when rapid advances in science and engineering provided the capability for ubiquitous interaction among humans and machines.

As a key component of this technological progression, automatic speech recognition and speech synthesis are likely to become common place over the next decade or so, along with a variety of other speech applications (such as interlingual translation and speaker verification) destined to improve our daily lives.

Moreover, significant incentives will arise to develop machines that understand spoken language, and utilize this capability to simulate interactions that have hitherto been the exclusive domain of humans.

The "Springer Handbook of Speech Processing and Communication" is the quickly accessible source of application-oriented, authoritative and comprehensive information about these technologies.

It combines the established knowledge derived from research in such fast evolving disciplines as Signal Processing and Communications, Acoustics, Computer Science and Linguistics.