Speech Technology Books

I read this after having my iphone for only a few days. In those few days I learned 95%+ of what was in the book. The book was okay - I was just expecting to learn some amazing things and that wasn't the case. Probably an okay book for someone who has no technical expertise.

This book is thorough, basic, elemental. Yes, there's a section about "jail breaking" you iPhone to be able use third party apps...that's what the author is about in much of his work. It would be good to have this book in hand and some of it read before one's new iPhone is broken out of the box. For example, his tips about conditioning the battery on the very first charge and after are very, very valuable. I bought the book "too late." Much of it covers material I had already come across with my phone's use. The book was more basic, for the most part, than I had hoped. Get it before you get the iPhone or shortly thereafter...that way, your needs will coincide much more closely with the author's presentation. It's a very good manual...if you need it.

This was a good introduction book. While there is some technical descriptions in it, it is easy to understand the diagrams helped me to explain how it works to my staff. There are so many new terms and acronyms for IPTV, if you are just getting involved in IPTV, this book is a good start.

This book waste a page to explain: download speed = file size/bit rate even with ilustration (WOW). The rest of the book has the same technical level.
Amazon, dont you check what you sell?

We have spent the better part of the last seven years trying to create a nationwide infrastructure to support IP services and applications. In spite of the great progress, this is still work in progress. A large question still exists. How are we dealing with the physical and security limitations of packet technologies in the wide area? Some of these early concerns were covered in my first book "IP Telephony, The integration of robust VoIP services", sponsored by Hewlett-Packard / Agilent Technologies and published by Prentice-Hall. But that was only the beginning...there is a lot more work that needs to be done before we can safely say we have hit the target of ubiquitous "seamless integration" of applications and services...and let's not forget that in the end, we will have to address the manner in which we access and manipulate large scale and distributed data across the wide area.

In my second book I cover SIP, H.323, SCTP, MGCP, H.248 and other IP protocols with interoperability test cases and call flows. Understanding the enormity of protocol interoperability is only half the battle. The other half is choosing the architecture that will deliver the performance and product features. The new battlefield the will determine the feasibility of a lot of new network designs will be around data access and manipulation. IT systems and network systems tend to want to blend into each other, but can it be done with the state of the art in data base design? More to come...Enjoy the book.

Bill

This book will not teach most readers anything practical about VOIP. I am a CCNP, with a BSEE and Masters degree, and this is the first technical book that I have come across in a long time that will not give me even a single paragraph of useful information that I can deliver to my class room of technical students who want to learn more about VOIP. The only value I can find so far, is that the author references a bunch of RFCs that are related to VOIP. Since this author is probably going to keep writing books, here is my message to the author. You probably dedicated many years of your life to VOIP and related subjects, and perhaps this makes you an "expert". But the average technical person in the world would greatly appreciate a layman's term high level introduction paragraph or 2, to each and every single technical subject that you are going to talk about, before you start rattling off protocols like H.248 vs H.245 vs H.323 vs H.225 like on page 4 of your book. My only consolation to having purchased this horrible book is that I bought an inexpensive used one, right here on Amazon. This book had nothing but 5 stars by the previous Amazon reviewers and I trusted their judgement. Boy are they wrong! Amazon has advertized that a book called VOIP for DUMMys will be released in June 2005 and I cant wait for this book to be available. Unfortunately, my class begins next week, so I will be forced to use the dry Cisco books.

I just own the 2480, so there are a LOT of pages of this book, most in fact, that are useless.

I did get a few things out of it that were very useful. But each machine deserves it's own book. Not several machines crammed into one.

This book is basically full of tips on the use of the machine(s)...not a comprehensive manual. You will definitely still need to refer to the Roland manuals for many things. I was hoping this book would take you step by step in plain language for every thing...not the case. The writers obviously know their stuff, but I wish it was more in depth...and that's pretty much impossible when the book covers all the Roland VS series recorders.

I found this book to be enormously useful in understanding the determinants of voice quality in live, packet-based networks - not just what matters in engineering laboratories. Its value goes beyond, that, though, because it helped me understand what the people who run telecom companies and their customers should be looking for in the transition from today's voice networks to those carrying voice over IP. Anyone who is interested in these topics should read this book.

As more and more voice traffic is transmitted over packet-switched networks, the challenges to producing high-quality voice services at a low cost are increasing, thanks to the increasing complexity of the networks involved. There are corresponding pay-offs, however, for the equipment vendors and service providers that do learn how to meet these challenges. Not only should they be able to provide the equivalent of voice network's service for lower costs, they should also be able to offer new services that combine voice and data in ways that attract new customers -- and boost revenues. Conversely, as long as these challenges go unmet, or in many cases, unrecognized, they will slow the rate at which the promises of the new technology can be realized. Working as I do in a company striving to break through these barriers to success, it is heartening to find a book like this one that helps show the way.

VoIP Service Quality comprises three principal sections. The first lays out foundations for what follows. It starts by discussing the principal determinants of connection quality, especially in voice packet-switched networks. It next lays out how customer expectations for voice quality differ among the different services that can be offered with such networks, and closes with a description of the quality impairments that can be created or exacerbated by packet switching. The second section concerns the measurement and evaluation of voice quality. It offers value not only to those who are interested in the quality of packet-switched voice, but also those who are concerned with it in today's public switched telephone network. It shows how statistically rigorous, operationally useful quality testing can be set up in a network with minimal investment. It goes on to discuss a variety of automated test approaches, and lays out the benefits and defects of each. The third section outlines other quality concerns and points the way for measurement of voice quality in future, yet-to-be-defined services that combine voice and data. Those who are interested by this section would do well to read the author's previous book, the somewhat misleadingly entitled *QoS Measurement and Evaluation of Telecommunications Quality of Service*.

At the end of this voyage, the reader will have the complete conceptual structure needed to set up a voice service quality organization. Books like this one that lay out an arcane field in clear English are rare, especially since a good measure of humor is thrown in to ease the way. I recommend VoIP Service Quality highly.

I bought this book because I was looking for an objective means to evaluate the quality of voice, and moreover, i was thinking that the topics in this book could be transplanted to a new application, e.g. how to evaluate the TCP transport quality in an underlying network, which is the subject of my new job.

As a reference, this book stinks. The author will not define the "voice envelope" where if you stay within the envelope users will have a hard time perceiving a loss in quality. For example, this book is touted as useful to VoIP Network Architects, but the book gives absolutely no guidance as to what is an acceptable (or unacceptable) level of delay in a VoIP phone system.

Instead, the author wastes 309 pages and about .01% of a perfectly good tree, to say, basically, "nobody can evaluate voice quality without running a side-by-side experiment between two systems." Its a wonder that someone can publish 309 pages of this drivil with one conclusion for his entire work. Oh, I forgot, the author fills up the book with 67 pages that are wasted in his bragging about all his patents, when he filed them, and what each and every last patent was about. If that isn't vanity publishing, I don't know what is.

I've been using Live 5 since February of 2006 and I made the mistake of buying this book at a local store last month. It's not a bad book, but it doesn't seem to really showcase as many "tips and tricks" as the title might let on. Martin goes through and basically touches on most everything that Live 5 offers and occasionally gives an example of how a person might use it. However, if you have sat down and used Live 5 by yourself for more than a few hours, what he says will not be news to you. Maybe it's just me though - I was already aware that Live's midi tracks could send midi to other tracks and I already understood the power of follow actions.

The tips about using "reset clips" and building a step sequencer are pretty good though. However, I'd recommend just going to a book store to read those sections without actually purchasing the book. The rest of the material that surrounds those tips can be had elsewhere for free without having to browse through the filler text to get there.

As is evident by its title, this Cassette contains some of the audio transmissions from the Apollo 13 mission. The Apollo 13 mission was the third attempt to land a crew on the lunar surface; however, due to an explosion onboard the Command Module, the landing was aborted and the crew returned safely to the Earth after many trails and tribulations. The tape presents the transmissions in chronological order and of course contains the most famous quotes from the mission. For example, "Houston we have a problem"," one whole side missing", and "Farewell Aquarius". In general, I feel that most space buffs and those studying the Apollo 13 mission would find this tape fairly interesting, but the short length of the tape, 35 minutes, (plus a 6 minute speech by JFK) is hardly good coverage of a flight that lasted 8 days.

This cassette is also available on Compact Disc.

I would say this book is a five star book if you are a researcher in any of the following areas: speech acquisition and enhancement, acoustic echo cancellation, sound source tracking and estimation, or audio coding and sound stage representation. The math is very clear for one of these academic books written by committee with some good examples. I really don't know where the "multimedia communication systems" part of the title came from, though. Communications is never addressed in this book, so networking researchers and students should look elsewhere. If you are a DSP student interested in audio signal processing in general, this is also not the book for you. You will be completely confused from page 1 as the authors dive into specialized DSP research topics you were not anticipating. If you fall into this last category, my advice is to buy a copy of "Discrete Time Signal Processing 2nd Edition" by Oppenheim, Schafer and Buck. Make sure you understand it and then keep it around for a reference. Then buy Zolzer's "Digital Audio Signal Processing" for a good text on the hardware and software algorithms of audio DSP.

This book disappointed me a little. I expected full algorithms descriptions and derivations of most important formulas. Neither is present. Descriptions are very superficial and practically imposible is to implement algorithms directly "from book". So the book is useless for engineers and scientists. Maybe it could be useful for students, but lack of some derivations is a great disadvantage here. I can recommend this book to readers not directly involved in digital speech processing, who want to broaden their knowledge in this signal processing area.

I bought it to better learn to use this awesome program, but the book really wasn't too much better than the manual that came with the program. They don't tell you much different. It does, however, give you great descriptions of who used certain amps, distortion pedals, etc.. and describes the tone, sounds, etc.. in more detail than the manual. It walks you through creation of a few rigs that helps you understand better, but this is only like 2 chapters out of the whole book. It also has a decent chapter talking about live setup, and studio setup but this can be read on the internet anywhere. The rest is pretty much the manual paraphrased. The manual for this program really rocks!