Communication Acoustics - An Introduction To Speech, Audio And Psychoacoustics

"This book aims to convey to engineering students and researchers alike the relevant knowledge about the nature of acoustics, sound and hearing that will enable them to develop new technologies in this area through acquiring a thorough understanding of how sound and hearing works. There is currently no technical book available covering the communication path from sound sources through medium to the formation of auditory events in the brain - this book will fill this gap in the current book literature. Itdiscusses the multidisciplinary area of acoustics, hearing, psychoacoustics, signal processing, speech and sound quality and is suitable for use as a main course textbook for senior undergraduate and graduate courses related to audio communication systems. It covers the basics of signal processing, traditional acoustics as well as the human hearing system and how to build audio techniques based on human hearing resolution. It discusses the technologies and applications for sound synthesis and reproduction, and for speech and audio quality evaluation"--

Ville Pulkki, Department of Signal Processing and Acoustics, University of Aalto, Finland
Prof. Pulkki is currently affiliated to the Department of Signal Processing and Acoustics at the University of Aalto, Finland where he leads the Spatial Sound Research Group. He is an AES Fellow. Prof. Pulkki was General Chair of the AES 45th International Conference on Applications of Time-Frequency Processing in Audio (2012), and he is Associate Technical Editor of the Journal of the Audio Engineering Society.<.p>

Matti Karjalainen, Department of Signal Processing and Acoustics, University of Aalto, Finland
Prof. Karjalainen was previously Head of the Laboratory of Acoustics and Audio Signal Processing at Helsinki University of Technology which now forms part of the Department of Signal Processing and Acoustics at the University of Aalto, Finland. Prof. Karjalainen had long term cooperation with companies such as Nokia and loudspeaker manufacturer Genelec. For his scientific and educational merits in audio signal processing, he received the Audio Engineering Society Fellowship in 1999, the AES Silver Medal in 2006, and the IEEE Fellowship in 2009. He published over 350 scientific and technical publications. Prof. Karjalainen passed away in May 2010.