Editors:
- Delivers timely overview of the fundamental challenges in modern speech communication systems
- Provides concise insights into recent research topics
Part of the book series: Springer Topics in Signal Processing (STSP, volume 3)
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Table of contents (12 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
Modern communication devices, such as mobile phones, teleconferencing systems, VoIP, etc., are often used in noisy and reverberant environments. Therefore, signals picked up by the microphones from telecommunication devices contain not only the desired near-end speech signal, but also interferences such as the background noise, far-end echoes produced by the loudspeaker, and reverberations of the desired source. These interferences degrade the fidelity and intelligibility of the near-end speech in human-to-human telecommunications and decrease the performance of human-to-machine interfaces (i.e., automatic speech recognition systems).
The proposed book deals with the fundamental challenges of speech processing in modern communication, including speech enhancement, interference suppression, acoustic echo cancellation, relative transfer function identification, source localization, dereverberation, and beamforming in reverberant environments.
Enhancement of speech signals is necessary whenever the source signal is corrupted by noise. In highly non-stationary noise environments, noise transients, and interferences may be extremely annoying. Acoustic echo cancellation is used to eliminate the acoustic coupling between the loudspeaker and the microphone of a communication device. Identification of the relative transfer function between sensors in response to a desired speech signal enables to derive a reference noise signal for suppressing directional or coherent noise sources. Source localization, dereverberation, and beamforming in reverberant environments further enable to increase the intelligibility of the near-end speech signal.
Reviews
From the reviews:
“The book, Speech Processing in Modern Communication: Challenges and Perspectives, contains twelve self-contained articles, which cover the … topics well. … a good reference for graduate students as well as industrial engineers in the area of speech processing.” (Shie Qian, International Journal of Acoustics and Vibration, Vol. 17 (1), 2012)Editors and Affiliations
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Dept. Electrical Engineering, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa Technion City, Israel
Israel Cohen
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Inst. National de la Recherche Scientifique (INRS), Université de Quebec, Montreal, Canada
Jacob Benesty
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School of Engineering, Bar-Ilan University, Israel
Sharon Gannot
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Speech Processing in Modern Communication
Book Subtitle: Challenges and Perspectives
Editors: Israel Cohen, Jacob Benesty, Sharon Gannot
Series Title: Springer Topics in Signal Processing
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-11130-3
Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg
eBook Packages: Engineering, Engineering (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2010
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-642-11129-7Published: 04 February 2010
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-642-26236-4Published: 04 May 2012
eBook ISBN: 978-3-642-11130-3Published: 18 December 2009
Series ISSN: 1866-2609
Series E-ISSN: 1866-2617
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVIII, 342
Topics: Signal, Image and Speech Processing, User Interfaces and Human Computer Interaction, Acoustics, Communications Engineering, Networks