Principles of Computer Speech [first edition]

BRAND NEW COPY w/trace edge wear to boards. DJ/None as Issued. Slight creasing to first 10 pages (publishing flaw). A practical description of the technology of speech output from computers. 11 chapters: 1, Why Speech Output?; 2, What is Speech?; 3, Speech Storage; 4, Speech Analysis; 5, Resonance Speech Synthesizers; 6, Linear Prediction of Speech; 7, Joining Segments of Speech; 8, Prosodic Features in Speech Synthesis; 9, Generating Speech from Text; 10, Designing the Man-Computer Dialogue; and 11, Commercial Speech Output Devices.