LECTURE 02: A BRIEF OVERVIEW OF SPEECH PRODUCTION

• Objectives:
  
  
  • Basic speech physiology
    
    
  • Speech is a sound pressure wave
    
    
  • Transduction to an electrical signal introduces distortion
    
    
  • Acoustic analysis follows the same principles used in electromagnetic wave propagation
    
    
  • There are many ways to view a speech signal
    
    
  • Concatenated tube models (linear acoustics)

This lecture contains material from an excellent textbook on the fundamentals of speech processing:

J. Deller, et. al., Discrete-Time Processing of Speech Signals, MacMillan Publishing Co., ISBN: 0-7803-5386-2, 2000.

as well as information found in the course textbook:

X. Huang, A. Acero, and H.W. Hon, Spoken Language Processing - A Guide to Theory, Algorithm, and System Development, Prentice Hall, Upper Saddle River, New Jersey, USA, ISBN: 0-13-022616-5, 2001.