{"id":946,"date":"2016-07-13T17:41:54","date_gmt":"2016-07-13T16:41:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentcomp-news\/?p=946"},"modified":"2016-07-14T08:45:52","modified_gmt":"2016-07-14T07:45:52","slug":"hear-hear-speech-and-audio-book-published","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentcomp-news\/2016\/07\/13\/hear-hear-speech-and-audio-book-published\/","title":{"rendered":"Hear, hear: speech and audio book published"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Professor Ian McLoughlin has published a new book\u00a0<em><span id=\"productTitle\" class=\"a-size-large\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cambridge.org\/gb\/academic\/subjects\/engineering\/communications-and-signal-processing\/speech-and-audio-processing-matlab-based-approach?format=HB\">Speech and Audio Processing<\/a>: A MATLAB-based Approach,<\/span><\/em><span id=\"productTitle\" class=\"a-size-large\">\u00a0which promises to be one of the few<\/span><span id=\"productTitle\" class=\"a-size-large\">\u00a0books to provide a practical hands-on approach in\u00a0this area.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Professor McLoughlin, Head of School at Medway said: \u201cWith the increasingly rapid worldwide adoption of smartphones and the popularity of streaming music services and speech interaction through systems like Siri, Google Now and Cortana, the Speech and Audio research field has seen exponential growth over recent years. This book takes a hands-on and fun approach to getting readers quickly up to speed with the latest techniques in those fields.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The book is Professor McLoughlin&#8217;s\u00a0second book with Cambridge University press and is\u00a0available to buy from\u00a0Amazon from 21 July 2016. He\u00a0has worked with speech and audio for almost three decades in both industry and academia, creating signal processing systems for speech compression, enhancement and analysis, authoring over 200 publications in this domain. Professor McLoughlin pioneered Bionic Voice research, invented super-audible silent speech technology and was the first to apply the power of deep neural networks to machine hearing, endowing computers with the ability to comprehend a diverse range of sounds.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Professor Ian McLoughlin has published a new book\u00a0Speech and Audio Processing: A MATLAB-based Approach,\u00a0which promises to be one of the few\u00a0books to provide a practical &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentcomp-news\/2016\/07\/13\/hear-hear-speech-and-audio-book-published\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5321,"featured_media":947,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[124],"tags":[608,149987,150009],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentcomp-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/946"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentcomp-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentcomp-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentcomp-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5321"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentcomp-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=946"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentcomp-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/946\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":950,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentcomp-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/946\/revisions\/950"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentcomp-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/947"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentcomp-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentcomp-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentcomp-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}