Philippe Martin 
Speech Acoustic Analysis [PDF ebook] 

The text sets out in simple and accessible terms the various methods of acoustic analysis of speech, placing them in their historical context, allowing a better understanding of the mathematical and technical solutions adopted today in phonetics and experimental phonology.

Without mathematical complications, the operating bases of the many speech analysis software currently available are exposed so that everyone can understand the limits and avoid errors and misinterpretations in their implementation.

Table of Content

1. The sound

2. Pure sound and real

3. In the good old days

4. From the mechanism of phonation to the speech signal

5. Fourier has arrived: the harmonic representation

6. Prony has also arrived: the source-filter model

7. Fourier, Prony and speech analysis

8. Wavelet analysis

9. Laryngeal frequency and fundamental frequency

10. Return to sources: from the speech signal to phonation

11. Articulatory models

12. Reading spectrograms

13. Morphing prosodic

14. Automatic alignment

15. Synthesis of speech

16. Machines and algorithms

17. Practical work

18. Appendices

About the author

Martin Philippe, University Paris Diderot, France.