Application of Wavelets in Speech Processing (SpringerBriefs in Speech Technology)

Fully updated edition provides the latest  advances in the application of wavelets  in speech technology

Features updated information on Spectral Analysis of Speech Signal and Pitch Estimation; Speech Coding, Synthesis, and Compression; and Speech Detection and Separation

New sections are added to discuss the application of wavelets analysis in forensics

The new edition also presents  a new chapter on scalogram analysis of speech

Mohamed Hesham Farouk El-Sayed is a full professor with the Engineering Math & Physics Department within the Faculty of Engineering at Cairo University. He obtained his B.Sc. in electronics and telecommunications engineering with honors on 1982, another B.Sc. in physics on 1985 and M.Sc. in engineering physics on 1989 all from Cairo university. He received his Ph.D. in Engineering Physics from Cairo University on 1993. He is the author and coauthor of several published papers on the application of wavelets in the analysis of speech and on modeling of speech production in reputable periodicals and conferences since 1993. He is also the author of Application of Wavelets in Speech Processing (Springer 2014). M. Hesham has been actively involved in several national R&D projects on speech recognition since 1982.