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Advances in Non-Linear Modeling for Speech Processing
Springer 2012; US$ 39.99"Advances in Non-Linear Modeling for Speech Processing" includes advanced topics in non-linear estimation and modeling techniques along with their applications to speaker recognition. Non-linear aeroacoustic modeling approach is used to estimate the important fine-structure speech events, which are not revealed by the short time Fourier transform... more...
Language Grounding in Robots
Springer 2012; US$ 84.99Written by leading international experts, this volume presents contributions establishing the feasibility of human language-like communication with robots. The book explores the use of language games for structuring situated dialogues in which contextualized language communication and language acquisition can take place. Within the text are integrated... more...
Subjective Quality Measurement of Speech
Springer 2012; US$ 99.99It is becoming crucial to accurately estimate and monitor speech quality in various ambient environments to guarantee high quality speech communication. This practical hands-on book shows speech intelligibility measurement methods so that the readers can start measuring or estimating speech intelligibility of their own system. The book also introduces... more...
Dialect Accent Features for Establishing Speaker Identity
Springer 2012; US$ 39.99Predicting Prosody from Text for Text-to-Speech Synthesis
Springer 2012; US$ 39.99Entropy Guided Transformation Learning: Algorithms and Applications
Springer 2012; US$ 31.99Was Texte zusammenhält
Narr Francke Attempto 2011; US$ 73.33Hauptbeschreibung Was macht aus einer Abfolge von Sätzen einen Text? Diese grundlegende Frage der Textlinguistik lässt sich nicht auf einer rein linguistischen Grundlage lösen. Das liegt daran, dass das Verstehen von Texten eine aktive Tätigkeit ist, die mehr als nur sprachliche Kenntnisse voraussetzt. An einen Text gehen wir dabei mit einer gewissen... more...
Historical Linguistics
Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 52.95Historical Linguistics provides a comprehensive and clearly written introduction to historical linguistic theory and methods. Since its first publication in 1962 the book has established itself as core reading for students of linguistics. This edition has been thoroughly revised. Drawing on recent linguistic and archaeological research Professor... more...
Lenition and Contrast
Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 130.00This book analyzes 153 languages from a large variety of families to establish a previously unexplored relationship between phonetically conditioned sound changes such as lenitions and functional (meaning maintenance related) considerations. Carefully collecting numerous inventories of consonants, this collection is likely to become an important resource... more...
The New Psychology of Language
Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 49.95From the point of view of psychology and cognitive science, much of modern linguistics is too formal and mathematical to be of much use. The newly emerging approaches to language termed, "Functional and Cognitive Linguistics," however, are much less formally oriented. Instead, functional and cognitive approaches to language structure are typically... more...









