Edition: 1
Publication date: 1996-09-17
Dewey code: 650
List Price: $99.95
Price: $59.97
Review Claris Works 4 VTC Training CD / Delmar Learning:Claris Works provides you with a single application where you can seamlessly combine text, graphics, spreadsheets, tables, and charts all within the same page. Mark Vernon teaches you this excellent application with over 5 hours of screen tutorial movies.
Edition: 1st
Publication date: 2003-03-07
Dewey code: 621.3822
List Price: $148.50
Price: $64.00
Review Speech Coding Algorithms: Foundation and Evolution of Standardized Coders / Wiley-Interscience:Speech coding is a highly mature branch of signal processing deployed in products such as cellular phones, communication devices, and more recently, voice over internet protocol This book collects many of the techniques used in speech coding and presents them in an accessible fashion Emphasizes the foundation and evolution of standardized speech coders, covering standards from 1984 to the present The theory behind the applications is thoroughly analyzed and proved
Edition: 1
Publication date: 1997-01-01
Dewey code: 006.54
List Price: $179.00
Price: $135.67
Review An Introduction to Text-to-Speech Synthesis (Text, Speech and Language Technology) / Springer:An Introduction to Text-to-Speech Synthesis is a comprehensive introduction to the subject. The author treats two areas of speech synthesis: Part I of the book concerns natural language processing and the inherent problems it presents for speech synthesis; Part II focuses on digital signal processing, with an emphasis on the concatenative approach. Both parts of the text guide the reader through the material in a step-by-step easy-to-follow way. This is the first book to treat the topic of speech synthesis from the perspective of two different engineering approaches. The book will be of interest to researchers and students in phonetics and speech communication, in both academia and industry.
Edition: 1
Publication date: 1996-09-17
Dewey code: 650
List Price: $99.95
Price: $68.50
Review Illustrator 6 VTC Training CD / Delmar Thomson Learning:Abode Illustrator is one of the leading illustration and design applications on the market today. It is used for the creation of maps, illustrations, logos designs, and much more. Trainer Deo Arellano, an experienced trainer and designer, takes you through Illustrator step by step, so that at the end of this 5 hour traning CD you will be confident in the use of this amazing tool.
Publication date: 2006-10-31
Dewey code: 781.23
List Price: $120.00
Price: $84.00
Review Music and Acoustics: From Instrument to Computer / ISTE Publishing Company:This overview on the nature of musical sounds, from their production by acoustic music instruments to synthesized sounds obtained with computers, includes topics such as sound propagation, Fourier and time-frequency analysis, psychoacoustics, analogue and digital-signal processing theory, computer science, and MP3 sound compression.
Creator: James W. Beauchamp
Edition: 1
Publication date: 2006-12-19
Dewey code: 781.23
List Price: $89.95
Price: $64.76
Review Analysis, Synthesis, and Perception of Musical Sounds: The Sound of Music / Springer:The problems of analyzing and synthesizing musical timbres have been prevalent for over half a century, and a book length exploration of this large and complex subject has been long overdue. Analysis, Synthesis, and Perception of Musical Sounds: Sound of Music consists of eight chapters that span the range from tutorial introduction to advanced research and application to speculative assessment of its various techniques. All of the contributors use a generalized additive sine wave model for describing musical timbre which gives a conceptual unity but is of sufficient utility to be adapted to many different tasks. The authors represent an international community of researchers and teachers in the field of analysis/synthesis/perception, and this book reflects the important trends and interests current in the subject. Due to its breadth, students will find the book a thorough introduction to current thinking and implementation of additive sine wave timbral models. Researchers new to the field will find a canvas of applications with citations to the relevant literature, which will also benefit the teacher searching for an effective syllabus. Due to its scope, Analysis, Synthesis, and Perception of Musical Sounds will become the standard reference in the field and will be seen as the catalyst for exciting research in the years ahead.
Publication date: 2004-07-14
Dewey code: 006.68682
List Price: $75.95
Price: $65.42
Review QuickTime Toolkit Volume Two: Advanced Movie Playback and Media Types (QuickTime Developer Series) / Morgan Kaufmann:"Buried inside QuickTime are a host of powerful tools for creating, delivering, and playing digital media. The official QuickTime documentation explains 'what' each API function does. But knowing what each function does isn't enough to allow a developer to take full advantage of QuickTime. QuickTime Toolkit fills in the gap—providing plenty of practical examples of 'how' to use QuickTime to perform all kinds of useful tasks. More importantly, [this book] goes beyond 'how' and into 'why' —providing readers with a deeper understanding of QuickTime and how to benefit from using it in their own products. " —Peter Hoddie, cofounder of Kinoma and former QuickTime architectQuickTime Toolkit, Volume Two continues the step-by-step investigation of programming QuickTime, the elegant and powerful media engine used by many of Apple's industry-leading services and products (such as the iTunes music store, iMovie, and Final Cut Pro) and also used by a large number of third-party applications. This second collection of articles from the author's highly regarded column in MacTech Magazine builds upon the discussion of playback techniques and media types presented in the first volume to cover advanced types of QuickTime media data, including video effects, Flash tracks, and skins. It shows how to capture audio and video data, broadcast that data to remote computers, play movies full screen, and load movies asynchronously. QuickTime Toolkit Volume Two also shows how to integrate Carbon events into your Macintosh application and how to work with Macintosh resources in your Windows application. Part of the official QuickTime Developer Series, publishing the finest books on QuickTime in cooperation with Apple. [+]*Includes a CD-ROM with numerous code examples in C to help you get started with your own applications*Written by one of Apple's premier media engineers skilled in revealing QuickTime's sophisticated technology to programmers*Offers many undocumented insider tips for making applications that work well in both Mac OS and Windows.
Creator: Karlheinz Brandenburg
Edition: 1
Publication date: 1998-03
Dewey code: 621.3893
List Price: $99.00
Price: $70.85
Review Applications of Digital Signal Processing to Audio and Acoustics (The Springer International Series in Engineering and Computer Science) / Springer:With the advent of `multimedia', digital signal processing (DSP) of sound has emerged from the shadow of bandwidth limited speech processing to become a research field of its own. To date, most research in DSP applied to sound has been concentrated on speech, which is bandwidth limited to about 4 kilohertz. Speech processing is also limited by the low fidelity typically expected in the telephone network. Today, the main applications of audio DSP are high quality audio coding and the digital generation and manipulation of music signals. They share common research topics including perceptual measurement techniques and analysis/synthesis methods. Additional important topics are hearing aids using signal processing technology and hardware architectures for digital signal processing of audio. In all these areas the last decade has seen a significant amount of application-oriented research. The frequency range of wideband audio has an upper limit of 20 kilohertz and the resulting difference in frequency range and Signal to Noise Ratio (SNR) due to sample size must be taken into account when designing DSP algorithms. There are whole classes of algorithms that the speech community is not interested in pursuing or using. These algorithms and techniques are revealed in this book. [+]This book is suitable for advanced level courses and serves as a valuable reference for researchers in the field. Interested and informed engineers will also find the book useful in their work.
Publication date: 2003-07
Dewey code: 778.5960285536
List Price: $60.50
Price: $60.50
Review Final Cut Pro 4: Editing Professional Video With Dvd (Apple Pro Training) / Topeka Bindery:
Publication date: 2004-08
Dewey code: 004
List Price: $125.00
Price: $284.54
Review SAS Learning Edition 2.0 / SAS Publishing:Ideal for professors, students, and business professionals, SAS Learning Edition 2. 0 provides a PC-based entry point to SAS' new generation of business intelligence and analytical software. This personal learning version of SAS combines capabilities for data management, statistical analysis, advanced graphics, business forecasting, and quality improvement with a roster of powerful Windows-based products from the SAS Intelligence Architecture platform. Discover how to organize and manipulate even the messiest data, learn a variety of statistical methods, and create Web reports and eye-catching color graphics. Explore the power of SAS by using the SAS Enterprise Guide point-and-click interface or by writing and modifying SAS code through the SAS Program Editor-all on a low-cost, single CD-ROM. Customers can purchase this software in an English version or a multilanguage version. With the multilanguage version, you have a choice of loading SAS Learning Edition in Japanese, Chinese (Traditional or Simplified), or Korean. The software has an expiration date of December 1, 2008. This product is licensed for use on one workstation at a time, for your self-training, non-production purposes only. Concurrent usage or use on a network is not authorized.
Publication date: 1996-08-01
Dewey code: 621.39767
List Price: $91.50
Price: $106.20
Review The CD-ROM and Optical Disc Recording Systems (Textbooks in Electrical and Electronic Engineering) / Oxford University Press, USA:With one million CD-ROM users worldwide, there is an urgent need to demystify the technology of compact-disc data recording and retrieval, which will eventually replace the floppy disk. This book meets that need. It will benefit students, engineers, and professionals from many disciplines who wish to understand and exploit the cost-effective potential of optical data storage and retrieval. The book provides a unique introduction to CD-ROM and other optical recording systems, and clearly describes how the two main competing systems-the magneto-optic and the phase change types-work. Topics include photodetectors, lasers, mastering, WORM media, and magneto-optic media, among others. Keep up to date with this superb new introduction to CD-ROM and optical disc recording systems.
Edition: 1
Publication date: 2002-12-05
Dewey code: 006.454
List Price: $84.95
Price: $67.96
Review Design of Speech-based Devices: A Practical Guide / Springer:Developments in technology have made it possible for speech output to be used in place of the more usual visual interface in both domestic and commercial devices. Speech can be used in situations where visual attention is occupied, such as when driving a car, or where a task is complex and traditional visual interfaces are not effective, such as programming a video recorder. Speech can also be employed in specialist adaptations for visually impaired people. However, the use of speech has not been universally successful, possibly because the speech interaction is poorly designed. Speech is fundamentally different from text, and a lot of the problems may arise due to simplified text-to-speech conversion. Design of Speech-based Devices considers the problems associated with speech interaction, and offers practical solutions.
Authors
- Alex Acero
- Hsiao-Wuen Hon
- Xuedong Huang
Dewey code: 006.35
List Price: $89.00
Price: $64.08
Review Spoken Language Processing: A Guide to Theory, Algorithm and System Development / Prentice Hall PTR:This will be the definitive book on spoken language systems written by the people at Microsoft Research who have developed the voic-activated technologies that will be imbedded in Windows 2000 and other key Microsoft products of the future. This is not a Microsoft book, however, this is a book on the science and linguistics of this technology and how to use it in developing and building hardware and software products.
Authors
- Channel Islands) NATO Advanced Study Institute on Computational Models of Speech Pattern Processing (1997 : Saint Helier
Publication date: 1999-07-15
Dewey code: 006.454
List Price: $164.00
Price: $74.00
Review Computational Models of Speech Pattern Processing (Nato a S I Series Series III, Computer and Systems Sciences) / Springer-Verlag Telos:This high-level collection of invited tutorial papers and contributed papers is based on a NATO workshop held in 1997. It surveys and discusses the latest techniques in the field of speech science and technology with a view to working toward a unifying theory of speech pattern processing. The tutorials presenting significant leading-edge research are a valuable resource for researchers and others wishing to extend their knowledge of the field. Most of the papers are sorted into two groups, approaching respectively from the acoustic and the linguistic perspectives. The acoustic papers include reviews of work on human perception, the state of the art in very-large-vocabulary recognition, connectionist and hybrid models, robust approaches, and speaker characteristics. The linguistic papers include work on psycholinguistics, language modeling and adaptation, the use of natural language knowledge sources, multilingual systems, and systems using speech technology.
Authors
- Wolfgang Minker
- Gerhard Schmidt
- Bernd Iser
Publication date: 2008-08-12
Dewey code: 620
List Price: $99.00
Price: $64.35
Review Bandwidth Extension of Speech Signals (Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering) / Springer:Bandwidth Extension of Speech Signals describes the theory and methods for quality enhancement of clean speech signals and distorted speech signals such as those that have undergone a band limitation, for instance, in a telephone network. Problems and the respective solutions are discussed for the different approaches. The different approaches are evaluated and a real-time implementation of the most promising approach is presented. The book includes topics related to speech coding, pattern- / speech recognition, speech enhancement, statistics and digital signal processing in general.
Authors
- Richard E. Goldberg
- Marina Bosi
Publication date: 2002-12-31
Dewey code: 621.38932
List Price: $149.00
Price: $66.57
Review Introduction to Digital Audio Coding and Standards (The Springer International Series in Engineering and Computer Science) / Springer:Provides a detailed introduction to the implementations and official standards of the state of the art audio coding technology.
Publication date: 2006-05-30
Dewey code: 004.563
List Price: $68.75
Price: $68.75
Review Logical Partitions on System I5: A Guide to Planning And Configuring Lpar With Hmc on System I / IBM.Com/Redbooks:
Edition: CD-ROM
Publication date: 1997-04
Dewey code: 004
List Price: $73.95
Price: $63.05
Review EDN Design Ideas (CD ROM) (EDN Series for Design Engineers) / Butterworth-Heinemann:The EDN Design Ideas CD-ROM contains the articles from EDN's Design Ideas section and related articles from EDN's Bulletin Board. The Design Ideas section of EDN consists of articles submitted by EDN readers to give hints to designers who are troubleshooting or who need ideas to solve circuit design problems. Powerful key word search allows you to quickly find all articles of interest. This CD-ROM has cut and paste capability to export design ideas to other programs. The bookmark and notes functions also help users adapt the information to their specific needs. Hundreds of circuit design ideas. Powerful key word search capabilities. Excellent display of graphics.
Publication date: 2004-08
Dewey code: 004
List Price: $69.00
Price: $69.00
Review Nclex-Pn Gold 2005 / MEDS Publishing:
Edition: CD-Rom
Publication date: 2000-06
Dewey code: 004
List Price: $69.00
Price: $69.00
Review Disease of Vegetables: Cucurbits, Garlic, Lettuce, Onion, Tomato (Digital Images Collection) / Amer Phytopathological Society:
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