Inhaltsangabe1. Introduction.- 2. A Brief History of Speech.- 3. Speech Recognition and Speaker Identification.- 4. Speech Dialogue Systems and Natural Language Processing.- 5. Speech Compression.- 6. Speech Synthesis.- 7. Speech Production.- 8. The Speech Signal.- 9. Hearing.- 10. Binaural Hearing - Listening with Both Ears.- 11. Basic Signal Concepts.- A. Acoustic Theory and Modeling of the Vocal Tract.- B. Direct Relations Between Cepstrum and Predictor Coefficients.- References.- General Reading.- Selected Journals.- A Sampling of Societies and Major Meetings.- Glossary of Speech and Computer Terms.- Name Index.- The Author.