Acoustics (Schaum's Outline)1 review W. W. Seto Mcgraw-Hill, 1971 Excellent inexpensive guide to engineering acoustics If you are an engineering or physics student and you would like an inexpensive guide to acoustics with plenty of worked examples and solved problems, this little book is for you. The title page doesn't say so, but it is actually entitled "Schaum's Outline on the Theory and Problems of Acoustics", ...             Foundations of Statistical Natural Language Processing11 reviews Christopher D. Manning, Hinrich Schuetze The MIT Press, 1999 Self-contained and instructive, read the TOC first! + Good book for people interested in Natural Language Processing. + fastest delivery + very definitive, really a must read             Speech and Audio Signal Processing: Processing and Perception of Speech and Music4 reviews Ben Gold, Nelson Morgan Wiley, 1999 Speech and Audio Signal Processing: Processing and Perceptio + Great, but don't buy it here.... + Hitch Hiker's Guide to Speech & Audio Processing :-) This is a book much needed in the speech and audio community because of its unique perspective on these topics. By their very nature, speech, music and other audio signals are only fully understood if one takes into account their perception, production, and the context within whcih they exist ...             Spoken Language Processing: A Guide to Theory, Algorithm and System Development10 reviews Xuedong Huang, Alex Acero, ... Prentice Hall PTR, 2001 A classic and comprehensive resource + exhortation + A tour de force + Microsoft's future cook book + Useful and interesting             English Syntax: An Introduction Andrew Radford Cambridge University Press, 2004 This abridged version of Radford's Minimalist Syntax: Exploring the Structure of English offers a concise, accessible introduction to current syntactic theory, drawing on the key concepts of Chomsky's Minimalist Program. Assuming little or no prior grammatical knowledge, it leads students through a range of topics in English syntax, beginning at an elementary level and progressing in stages ...             Psychoacoustics: Facts and Models (Springer Series in Information Sciences)4 reviews Hugo Fastl, Eberhard Zwicker Springer, 2006 Be Ready to Get Hammered With Information + Essential for NVH + Ever wanted to understand human hearing? Zwicker is a major name in Psychoacoustics. He references his own publications in the field well over 100 times in this book. This book is probably the most comprehensive collection of psychoacoustical information I have seen to date. As with all works, it starts with a description of sound and the ...             Speech and Language Processing (2nd Edition) (Prentice Hall Series in Artificial Intelligence)20 reviews Daniel Jurafsky, James H. Martin Prentice Hall, 2008 Great introductions and reference book + quite good, but still has improvement space + I looked for + The a good introduction to NLP, but could be improved             An Introduction to Information Theory3 reviews Fazlollah M. Reza Dover Publications, 1994 A crisp and clear treatment. + A Must Read for Beginners + The best book for beginners Like most Dover mathematics books, this is a high-quality reprint of an older textbook (1961). I have read the first 100 pages, and am very impressed thus far. The writing is crisp and clear, and moves at a good pace. The book seems to me to be ideal for self-study and as a lead-in to more ...             Linguistics: An Introduction to Language and Communication3 reviews Adrian Akmajian, Richard A. Demers, ... The MIT Press, 2001 Excellent intro text + Great book! + great book for learning linguistics This is the second edition and fourth printing of this popular text by Akmajian, Demers, and Harnish at the University of Arizona. Although this text is now over 15 years old, it's still a fine introduction to the subject. One nice thing about the book is that the prose is not too technical for the ...             Bundle of Algorithms in Java, Third Edition, Parts 1-5: Fundamentals, Data Structures, Sorting, Searching, ...6 reviews Robert Sedgewick Addison-Wesley Professional, 2003 Excellent book + More Practical for Programmers Than Cormen's + A treasure! First is Knuth, second is Corman that brings the art of algorithms closer to earth. Then is Sedgewick. This book provides very good balance between theory and practice and lets the practitioners know that programming is a bit more than just writing "if" and "for" and that the art of algorithms is ...             Fundamentals of Speech Recognition (Prentice Hall Signal Processing Series)7 reviews Lawrence Rabiner, Biing-Hwang Juang Prentice Hall PTR, 1993 Excellent Introduction + Book review + Good introduction for beginners + Classical Book for Speech recognition             Schaum's Outline of Signals and Systems17 reviews Hwei Hsu McGraw-Hill, 1995 Great Product + Good condition. + Great to assist with signal analysis + Great little book             Fast Fourier Transform and Its Applications (Prentice-Hall Signal Processing Series)14 reviews E. Brigham Prentice Hall, 1988 An accessible examination of the FFT great for self study + The best + The Best DFT / FFT Book on the Market + Written with the reader in mind. + Very good, but be careful, though             Voice Recognition (Artech House Telecommunications Library)1 review Richard L. Klevans, Robert D. Rodman Artech House Publishers, 1997 Voice Recognition theory and application Klevans and Rodman did an excellent job at presenting the theory and application of voice recognition. The book goes into just the right amount of detail that a subject of this nature requires. Also, various models and techniques for dealing with speech recognition were explored, with the pros and ...             Probability and Random Processes with Applications to Signal Processing (3rd Edition)12 reviews Henry Stark, John W. Woods Prentice Hall, 2001 Great random processes book for engineers + Give it time This book is ideal as a textbook in a class on random processes, particularly for engineers and those interested in signal processing and telecommunications. I have found the book very easy to follow, quite accessible and complete, and the example problems are very indicative of the approach you ...             A Course in Phonetics (with CD-ROM)12 reviews Peter Ladefoged Wadsworth Publishing, 2005 MAGNIFICENT + Linguistics + good resource + Good choice by my son's linguistics professor + i had to buy it for class.             Machine Learning (Mcgraw-Hill International Edit)34 reviews Thomas Mitchell McGraw Hill Higher Education, 1997 Good presentation of concepts + Please bow down to Tom Mitchell + Excellent Book, but for Academia Only + Outstanding + Great Start to Machine Learning             Speech Coding Algorithms: Foundation and Evolution of Standardized Coders4 reviews Wai C. Chu Wiley-Interscience, 2003 Great attention to details + A jump-start + Can be considered "the rationale" for speech coding standards + This is a comprehensive book on speech coding             Introduction to Neural Networks with Java4 reviews Jeff, T Heaton Heaton Research, Inc., 2005 Excellent practical book on neural networks using Java + Very Nice + Unique book Programming Neural Networks in Java will show the intermediate to advanced Java programmer how to create neural networks. This book attempts to teach neural network programming through two mechanisms. First the reader is shown how to create a reusable neural network package that could be used in ...             Acoustic Analysis of Speech2 reviews Raymond D. Kent Singular, 2001 THE READER FRIENDLY BOOK I HAVE EVER SEEN + I doubt you have a choice if it is for class... there may be a hundred books that teach acoustic analysis of speech, however this book will make the reader smile all along as he/she reads. The explanations are clear, and easily digested by the reader. It gives a feeling that kent and read are beside you and explainging things out and thats ...