Audio Signal Processing and Coding

Acknowledgments

The authors have all spent time at Arizona State University (ASU) and Prof. Spanias is in fact still teaching and directing research in this area at ASU. The group of authors has worked on grants with Intel Corporation and would like to thank this organization for providing grants in scalable speech and audio coding that created opportunities for in-depth studies in these areas. Special thanks to our colleagues in Intel Corporation at that time including Brian Mears, Gopal Nair, Hedayat Daie, Mark Walker, Michael Deisher, and Tom Gardos. We also wish to acknowledge the support of current Intel colleagues Gang Liang, Mike Rosenzweig, and Jim Zhou, as well as Scott Peirce for proof reading some of the material. Thanks also to former doctoral students at ASU including Philip Loizou and Sassan Ahmadi for many useful discussions in speech and audio processing. We appreciate also discussions on narrowband vocoders with Bruce Fette in the late 1990s then with Motorola GEG and now with General Dynamics.

The authors also acknowledge the National Science Foundation (NSF) CCLI for grants in education that supported in part the preparation of several computer examples and paradigms in psychoacoustics and signal coding. Also some of the early work in coding of Dr. Spanias was supported by the Naval Research Laboratories (NRL) and we would like to thank that organization for providing ideas for projects that inspired future work in this area. We also wish to thank ASU and some ...