1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910164087803321

Autore

Caine Leslie

Titolo

Death by Inferior Design / / Leslie Caine

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : NYLA, , 2004

ISBN

1-62517-416-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (423 pages)

Disciplina

813.6

Soggetti

Interior decorators

Murder - Investigation

Birthparents

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Sommario/riassunto

Sparkles with charm, design lore, and a sleuth with a great mantra. Cozy fans will embrace the Domestic Bliss series." ⁰́₃Carolyn Hart, Edgar Award-winning author of Letters from Home"TREND: For killer decorating tips, pick up Death by Inferior Design ... advice is woven into this whodunit featuring rival designers as sleuths." ⁰́₃House and Garden Magazine"This story is delightful in every way ... entertaining, humorous, serious, and totally engrossing from the first page to the last. And sprinkled throughout are tasty decorating tips." ⁰́₃Midwest Book Review"Her latest decorating job will make you feel like you've stumbled across the deadly side of HGTV." ⁰́₃Jerrilyn Farmer, #1 Los Angeles Times bestselling author of the Madeline Bean mysteriesInterior decorator Erin Gilbert heads to picturesque Crestview, Colorado for a friendly (if sharks are friendly) competition: She'll design a room in one home; and the impossibly handsome Steve Sullivan⁰́₄her main rival⁰́₄will do a room in another. The prize? A big feature in Denver Magazine, showcasing their interior design business.Who could have dreamed the uproar to ensue in a neighborhood full of eccentric homeowners, jealously hidden secrets and a few marriages in need of total makeovers. Trapped together in the midst of chaos, could the charming Steve turn out to be a...friend?But between her custom, cushy pillows and dramatic drapery, Erin uncovers a very undecorative dead



body, too many suspects, and a killer who seems to have designs ... on her!

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9911019682603321

Autore

Vary Peter

Titolo

Digital speech transmission : enhancement, coding and error concealment / / Peter Vary, Rainer Martin

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Chichester, England ; ; Hoboken, NJ, : John Wiley, c2006

ISBN

9786610606115

9781280606113

1280606118

9780470031742

0470031743

9780470031759

0470031751

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (645 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

MartinRainer

Disciplina

621.39/9

Soggetti

Speech processing systems

Signal processing - Digital techniques

Error-correcting codes (Information theory)

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Digital Speech Transmission; Contents; Preface; 1 Introduction; 2 Models of Speech Production and Hearing; 2.1 Organs of Speech Production; 2.2 Characteristics of Speech Signals; 2.3 Model of Speech Production; 2.3.1 Acoustic Tube Model of the Vocal Tract; 2.3.2 Digital All-Pole Model of the Vocal Tract; 2.4 Anatomy of Hearing; 2.5 Psychoacoustic Properties of the Auditory Organ; 2.5.1 Hearing and Loudness; 2.5.2 Spectral Resolution; 2.5.3 Masking; Bibliography; 3 Spectral Transformations; 3.1 Fourier Transform of Continuous Signals; 3.2 Fourier Transform of Discrete Signals

3.3 Linear Shift Invariant Systems3.3.1 Frequency Response of LSI Systems; 3.4 The z-transform; 3.4.1 Relation to FT; 3.4.2 Properties of



the ROC; 3.4.3 Inverse z-transform; 3.4.4 z-transform Analysis of LSI Systems; 3.5 The Discrete Fourier Transform; 3.5.1 Linear and Cyclic Convolution; 3.5.2 The DFT of Windowed Sequences; 3.5.3 Spectral Resolution and Zero Padding; 3.5.4 Fast Computation of the DFT: The FFT; 3.5.5 Radix-2 Decimation-in-Time FFT; 3.6 Fast Convolution; 3.6.1 Fast Convolution of Long Sequences; 3.6.2 Fast Convolution by Overlap-Add; 3.6.3 Fast Convolution by Overlap-Save

3.7 Cepstral Analysis3.7.1 Complex Cepstrum; 3.7.2 Real Cepstrum; 3.7.3 Applications of the Cepstrum; Bibliography; 4 Filter Banks for Spectral Analysis and Synthesis; 4.1 Spectral Analysis Using Narrowband Filters; 4.1.1 Short-Term Spectral Analyzer; 4.1.2 Prototype Filter Design for the Analysis Filter Bank; 4.1.3 Short-Term Spectral Synthesizer; 4.1.4 Short-Term Spectral Analysis and Synthesis; 4.1.5 Prototype Filter Design for the Analysis-Synthesis Filter Bank; 4.1.6 Filter Bank Interpretation of the DFT; 4.2 Polyphase Network Filter Banks; 4.2.1 PPN Analysis Filter Bank

4.2.2 PPN Synthesis Filter Bank4.3 Quadrature Mirror Filter Banks; 4.3.1 Analysis-Synthesis Filter Bank; 4.3.2 Compensation of Aliasing and Signal Reconstruction; 4.3.3 Efficient Implementation; Bibliography; 5 Stochastic Signals and Estimation; 5.1 Basic Concepts; 5.1.1 Random Events and Probability; 5.1.2 Conditional Probabilities; 5.1.3 Random Variables; 5.1.4 Probability Distributions and Probability Density Functions; 5.1.5 Conditional PDFs; 5.2 Expectations and Moments; 5.2.1 Conditional Expectations and Moments; 5.2.2 Examples; 5.2.3 Transformation of a Random Variable

5.2.4 Relative Frequencies and Histograms5.3 Bivariate Statistics; 5.3.1 Marginal Densities; 5.3.2 Expectations and Moments; 5.3.3 Uncorrelatedness and Statistical Independence; 5.3.4 Examples of Bivariate PDFs; 5.3.5 Functions of Two Random Variables; 5.4 Probability and Information; 5.4.1 Entropy; 5.4.2 Kullback-Leibler Divergence; 5.4.3 Mutual Information; 5.5 Multivariate Statistics; 5.5.1 MultivariateGaussian Distribution; 5.5.2 χ2-distribution; 5.6 Stochastic Processes; 5.6.1 Stationary Processes; 5.6.2 Auto-correlation and Auto-covariance Functions

5.6.3 Cross-correlation and Cross-covariance Functions

Sommario/riassunto

The enormous advances in digital signal processing (DSP) technology have contributed to the wide dissemination and success of speech communication devices - be it GSM and UMTS mobile telephones, digital hearing aids, or human-machine interfaces. Digital speech transmission techniques play an important role in these applications, all the more because high quality speech transmission remains essential in all current and next generation communication networks. Enhancement, coding and error concealment techniques improve the transmitted speech signal at all stages of the transmission chain, from