New material treats such contemporary subjects as automatic speech recognition and speaker verification for banking by computer and privileged (medical, military, diplomatic) information and control access.

The book also focuses on speech and audio compression for mobile communication and the Internet. The importance of subjective quality criteria is stressed.

The book also contains introductions to human monaural and binaural hearing, and the basic concepts of signal analysis.

Beyond speech processing, this revised and extended new edition of Computer Speech gives an overview of natural language technology and presents the nuts and bolts of state-of-the-art speech dialogue systems.

1. Introduction.- 2. A Brief History of Speech.- 3. Speech Recognition and Speaker Identification.- 4. Speech Compression.- 5. Speech Synthesis.- 6. Speech Production.- 7. The Speech Signal.- 8. Hearing.- 9. Binaural Hearing - Listening with Both Ears.- 10. Basic Signal Concepts.- A. Acoustic Theory and Modeling of the Vocal Tract.- A.1 Introduction.- A.2 Acoustics of a Hard-Walled, Lossless Tube.- A.2.1 Field Equations.- A.2.2 Time-Invariant Case.- A.2.3 Formants as Eigenvalues.- A.2.4 Losses and Nonrigid Walls.- A.3 Discrete Modeling of a Tube.- A.3.1 Time-Domain Modeling.- A.3.2 Frequency-Domain Modeling, Two-Port Theory.- A.3.3 Tube Models and Linear Prediction.- A.4 Notes on the Inverse Problem.- A.4.1 Analytic and Numerical Methods.- A.4.2 Empirical Methods.- B. Direct Relations Between Cepstrum and Predictor Coefficients.- B.1 Derivation of the Main Result.- B.2 Direct Computation of Predictor Coefficients from the Cepstrum.- B.3 A Simple Check.- B.4 Connection with Algebraic Roots and Symmetric Functions.- B.5 Connection with Statistical Moments and Cumulants.- B.6 Computational Complexity.- B.7 An Application of Root-Power Sums to Pitch Detection.- References.- General Reading.- Selected Journals.- A Sampling of Societies and Major Meetings.- Glossary of Speech and Computer Terms.- Name Index.- The Author.