Chapter One
From Physics to Psychophysics
This first chapter does not present new material, but rather presents some backgrounds
for the various BWE topics. The selection of the material to be included in this chapter
is mainly motivated by what is considered to be a useful reference if unfamiliar concepts
are encountered in later chapters. To keep this backgrounds section concise, it will not
always contain all desired information, but references are provided for further reading (as
is done throughout the remainder of the book).
The topics covered in this chapter are basics in signal processing in Sec. 1.1, statistics
of speech and music in Sec. 1.2, acoustics (mainly concerning loudspeakers) in Sec. 1.3,
and auditory perception in Sec. 1.4.
1.1 SIGNAL THEORY
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