Signal Processing 5 (1983) 469-470 North-Holland
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Discrete Fourier Transform and ist Applications to Power Spectra Estimation Nezih C. GECKINLI Electronics Research Division of Marmara Research Institute, Gebze, Kocaeli, Turkey Davras YAVUS Communication Division, Shape Technical Centre, The Hague, The Netherlands and Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey Elsevier Scientific Publishing Company, Amsterdam and New York, 1983, xvi + 340 pp, US$78.75 (in USA & Canada) Dfl. 185.00 (Rest of world) ISBN 0-444-41713-3. Contents List of F O R T R A N IV Programs. List of Numerical Applications. Examples 1. Introduction to Fourier Transformation: Introduction. Definitions. Basic theorems. Some useful transform pairs. Bandlimited functions. 2. Discrete Fourier Transformation: Introduction. Definitions. Relationship of DFT, Fourier transform and Fourier series. Fast Fourier transform (FFT) algorithms. Basic theorems of DFT. Bandlimited and time-limited interpolation. Linear convolution and linear correlation. Discrete energy spectrum. Problems. 3. Power Spectra Estimation Using DFT: Introduction. Two basic methods of power spectra estimation. Data and spectral windows. Power spectra estimation using DFT. Discrete data and spectral windows. Average and shorttime spectral analysis of processes not widesense stationary. Harmonic analysis of periodic and periodic-like signals using DFT.
Appendix A: Fourier Spectra Density. B: Examples of Power Spectra Estimation Using DFT. References. List of Principal Symbols. Author Index. Subject Index.
Principles of Computer Speech I.H. WITTEN Man-Machine Systems Laboratory, Department of Computer Science, University of Calgary, Canada Academic Press Inc. Ltd, London, 1982, 286 pp, £19.00 $32.00, ISBN 0-12-760760-9. Contents
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Why Speech Output? What is Speech? Speech Storage. Speech Analysis. Resonance Speech Synthesizers. Linear Prediction of Speech. Joining Segments of Speech. Prosodic Features in Speech Synthesis. Generating Speech from Text. Designing the Man-Computer Dialogue. Commercial Speech Output Devices.
Multirate Digital Signal Processing Ronald E. C R O C H I E R E and Lawrence R. RABINER Acoustics Research Department, Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, New Jersey USA Prentice-Hall, Inc. Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey 07632, 1983, 411 pp., ISBN 0-13-605162-6.
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