Voice and Speech Recognition: From Fundamentals to Full Implementation

This book offers a comprehensive guide to voice, speech, and speaker recognition, blending theory, coding, datasets, and real-world applications. It traces speech technology’s evolution from early prototypes to modern transformer-based systems, highlighting applications in virtual assistants, accessibility, and biometrics. Covering speech anatomy, audio preprocessing, and feature extraction techniques like MFCC, it explains libraries such as Librosa and PyDub.