Preface

This blog is a place for me to work on an idea I have for a book on speech science, with an emphasis on presenting signal and image processing tools for analyzing speech, and explaining how they work. The goal is to produce a resource that will be helpful to a broad range of students and researchers pursuing the study of speech communication, including linguists, speech-language pathologists, cognitive scientists, and computer scientists. Along the way, I aim to synthesize at least a portion of the current state of knowledge about speech communication, with the hope that these materials could also be used as a textbook in undergraduate or graduate level speech science, motor speech, or phonetics classes.

For now, I will assume the MATLAB scripting language when implementing the analysis tools that will be presented in this blog. If this project ends up turning into a book, I think I might like to provide code examples in Python and R as well as MATLAB... but we'll see.

As for the question of how to use this resource, the blog format lends itself to relatively short, self-contained and independent "chapters". So feel free to jump around.

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