Intro; Acknowledgements; Contents; About the Author; Prologue; 1 Introduction; 1.1 General; 1.2 Spectral Domain Representation; 1.3 Time-Domain Representation; 1.4 Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR); 1.5 Speech Synthesis; References; 2 Spectral Domain; 2.1 Introduction; 2.2 Spectral Structure of Bangla Phones; 2.3 Spectra of Oral Vowels; 2.4 Spectra of Nasal Vowels; 2.5 Spectra of Aspirated Vowels; 2.6 Dynamical Spectral Structures; References; 3 Cognition of Phones; 3.1 Place of Articulation of Plosives and Vowels; 3.1.1 Introduction

3.1.2 Machine Identification of Place of Articulation of Plosives3.1.3 Experimental Procedure; 3.1.4 Results; 3.2 Cognition of Place of Articulation; 3.2.1 Manipulation of the Signals; 3.2.2 Preparation of the Listening Set; 3.2.3 Results and Discussions; 3.3 Conclusion; 3.3.1 Spectral Cues of Nasal/Oral Distinction; 3.3.2 Cognitive Cues of Nasal/Oral Distinction; References; 4 Time-Domain Signal Processing; 4.1 State Phase Analysis; 4.1.1 Introduction; 4.1.2 State Phase Analysis; 4.1.3 Analysis-Resynthesis Using State Phase; 4.1.4 Coding for Data Packet; 4.1.5 Error Detection and Correction

4.1.6 Resynthesis Using Linear Interpolation4.1.7 Decoding and Regeneration; 4.1.8 Discussion; 4.2 Morphological Operations; 4.2.1 Introduction; 4.2.2 Spectral Changes; 4.2.3 F0 Detection; 4.2.4 Estimation of GI; 4.2.5 Lx Signal; 4.2.6 Methodology; 4.2.7 Experimental Procedure; 4.2.8 Results; References; 5 Time-Domain Representation of Phones; 5.1 Introduction; 5.2 Manner of Articulation; 5.3 Parameters; 5.3.1 Vowels; 5.3.2 Consonants; 5.4 Labeling; 5.4.1 Labeling Results; 5.4.2 Manner-Based Labeling; 5.4.3 Lexical Knowledge for Phone Disambiguation; References; 6 Random Perturbations

6.1 Introduction6.2 Perturbation Measures; 6.3 Perturbation Results; 6.4 Cognitive Aspects of Random Perturbations; 6.5 Discussion; References; 7 Nonlinearity in Speech Signal; 7.1 Introduction; 7.2 Chaos in Speech; 7.3 Fractals in Speech; 7.4 Summary; References