For graduate students in digital signal processing, and undergraduate students in Electrical and Computer Engineering. Also suitable for practicing engineers in speech processing.Clear, up-to-date, hands-on coverage of digital speech processing.This new textpresents the basic concepts and theories of speech processing with clarity and currency, while providing hands-on computer-based laboratory experiences for students. The material is organized in a manner that builds a strong foundation of basics first, and then concentrates on a range of signal processing methods for representing and processing the speech signal.