ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on the concepts covered in the preceding chapters of this book. The book provides a very readable introduction to phonetics and phonology, illustrated with examples from the “Received Pronunciation” variety of English. It focuses on the acoustic theory of speech production. The book also provides a wide range of aspects of speech, including a general view of the mechanism of speech production and its mathematical modeling. It focuses on the early history of acoustic models of speech production, besides dealing with many other aspects of synthesis, largely from a signal processing point of view. The book defines the acoustic aspect of hearing. It further provides an introduction to the psychology of hearing, and includes material on auditory physiology and the physics of sound. The book describes a model of the cochlea in considerable detail and reviews papers on speech coding.
