When Speech and Audio Signal Processing published in 1999, it stood out from its competition in its breadth of coverage and its accessible, intutiont-based style. This book was aimed at individual students and engineers excited about the broad span of audio processing and curious to understand the available techniques. Since then, with the advent of the iPod in 2001, the field of digital audio and music has exploded, leading to a much greater interest in the technical aspects of audio processing.

This Second Edition will update and revise the original book to augment it with...

A collection of personal experiences by the author with the inclusion of additional personal experiences by others who survived the Big Storm of 2005 - Hurricane Katrina. Most of these facts and incidents were culled from the existing web-sites and sub-domains created by Dan Ellis during the immediate aftermath of Katrina. There has been no attempt to not disclose the persons responding through emails or the collection of news events captured from news media. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced, copied, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or...

Pass Christian Historic District This book devotes attention to the city's colorful past in enumerating the heyday of elaborate and grandiose hotels as well as recalling the beautiful mansions which have been lost forever. All of which are shown with undistributed photographs, complete with well researched historical data. Ellis describes the Miramar Nursing home on Scenic Drive as the most historically active site in the early days of the Pass. It was the first elaborate "Watering Hole" between the New Orleans and Mobile schooner and steamboat run. The Pass Christian Hotel was built just a...

Pass Christian is situated on a peninsula like many of the other Gulf coast resorts. The town has essentially contained itself within its current city limits for more than a hundred years, having a six-mile frontage on the Mississippi Gulf Coast. On the west is the Bay of St. Louis and at its north are the bayous of Bois d'Ore, Portage, DeLisle, and Riviere des Loups; as they were named by early French explorers in 1699. Pass Christian was named for Nicholas Christian Ladnier, who settled at nearby Cat Island in 1745, naming the channel pass for himself and by which the town followed suit....

As a writer of cultural and heritage community history, it has always been a challenge to discover some uniqueness that heretofore had not been uncovered, rather than simply to replenish that which was already there, but now "empty" due to being out-of-print or removed from public access. Therefore, much like a person performing restorations to former stately edifices, I attempt to glean that which is available but with a perspective for the truth of factuality. As the storm winds blow the sands of the dessert, I have become a grain of sand that has been blown away from its former beachhead...

Voila I titled this book "Pass Christian Omnibus" because it evolves from my book, "Pass Christian Discovered," and moves forward and backward in time by pulling from additional information gathered through the years. Examples of this information were built into my many internet pages found at my www.PassChristian.Net website. By using sub-domains, I was able to store a multitude of facts, photographs and graphics that were never put in my books. In a number of instances I extracted pertinent data from my files that comprised the resource from other of my contributory books such as: "Trinity...

This book presents computational methods for extracting the useful information from audio signals, collecting the state of the art in the field of sound event and scene analysis.