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Signals and Systems in Speech and Hearing, 2nd edition
Peter Howell and I are pleased to announce that, just about exactly 20
years after its first appearance, a new edition of 'Signals and Systems
in Speech and Hearing' has appeared. This book aims to present the
essentials of signals and systems analysis required by audiologists,
phoneticians, speech and language therapists and psychologists
interested in almost any aspect of speech and hearing. It will also be
of use to people working in acoustic aspects of animal communication.
Although much of the main thrust of the book remains unchanged (no
modifications to Fourier's theorem have appeared recently!), many
changes have been made to reflect the nearly total reliance in the field
now concerning digital means for the recording, manipulation, storage
and transmission of signals.
This is most strongly reflected in two chapters. Chapter 11, dealing
with spectrograms, has been much extended and describes the two
different ways in which spectrograms can be constructed – through filter
banks and time windowing – and the relationship between them. Chapter
14, dealing explicitly with digital signals and systems, has been
expanded greatly to give concrete examples of digital systems and
digital signal processing, including the notion of infinite impulse
response (IIR) and finite impulse response (FIR) filters.
Finally, more in response to our teaching experience than any change in
instrumentation, Chapter 12 now focuses on the notion of the auditory
periphery as a set of systems, showing how its function is analogous to
that of making a spectrogram.
More information about the book can be found at:
http://www.phon.ucl.ac.uk/home/stuart/S&S_2010.html
You can order an inspection copy here:
http://info.emeraldinsight.com/promo/signals.htm
On sale at Amazon:
http://www.amazon.com/Signals-Systems-Speech-Hearing-2nd/dp/1848552262/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1292923151&sr=8-1
UK site:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Signals-Systems-Speech-Hearing-2nd/dp/1848552262/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1292923151&sr=8-1
I have used this book for some years now in a basic course aimed mostly
at audiologists, the details of which can be found here:
http://www.phon.ucl.ac.uk/courses/spsci/sigsys/
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Stuart Rosen, PhD
Professor of Speech and Hearing Science
Co-director of the UCL Centre for Human Communication
Speech, Hearing and Phonetic Sciences
UCL Division of Psychology & Language Sciences
2 Wakefield Street
London WC1N 1PF
England
Tel: internal x24077
(+ 44 [0]20) 7679 4077
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Email: stuart@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Home page: http://www.phon.ucl.ac.uk/home/stuart
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