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Books and Publications
Dick Stern
Applied Research Laboratory, The Pennsylvania State University PO Box 30, State College, Pennsylvania 16804
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Book Title: Cochlear Hearing Loss: Physiological, Psychological, and Technical Issues (Second Edition) Author: Brian C. J. Moore Publisher: Wiley (Series in Human Communication Science)
ISBN: 9780470516331 Pages: 360
Binding: Softcover
This book reviews the percep- tual changes associated with cochlear hearing loss and relates these to the underlying physiological mechanisms. Its
main goal is to convey an understanding of the difficulties faced by the hearing-impaired person and of the limitations of current hearing aids. Topics covered include the physiolo- gy of the peripheral auditory system, absolute thresholds, fre- quency selectivity and masking, loudness perception, tempo- ral resolution, pitch perception, sound localization and bin- aural processing, speech perception, and hearing aids. An extensive glossary is provided to give brief explanations of technical terms used in the book.
Book Title: Speech Enhancement: Theory and Practice
Author: Philipos C. Loizou Publisher: CRC Press
ISBN: 9780849350320 Pages: 632
Binding: Hardcover
This book provides comprehen- sive and up-to-date coverage of all major noise reduction and speech enhancement algorithms proposed in the last two decades. It covers traditional noise-reduc-
tion algorithms, such as spectral subtraction and Wiener fil- tering algorithms as well as state-of-the-art algorithms including minimum mean-squared error algorithms that incorporate signal-presence uncertainty and subspace algo- rithms that incorporate psychoacoustic models. The cover- age includes objective and subjective measures used to eval- uate speech quality and intelligibility.
Divided into three parts, the book presents the digital- signal processing and speech signal fundamentals needed to understand speech enhancement algorithms, the various classes of speech enhancement algorithms proposed over the last two decades, and the methods and measures used to evaluate the performance of speech enhancement algo- rithms. MATLAB implementations of all major noise reduc- tion algorithms and a speech database (IEEE corpus) that can be used for evaluation of noise reduction algorithms are included in an accompanying DVD-ROM.
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