Jurafsky & Martin – Section 3.1 – English Morphology

In speech technology for English, little or no use is made of morphology. But for other languages, it is essential.

Taylor – Chapter 4 – Text Processing

Complementary to Jurafsky & Martin, Section 8.1.

Jurafsky & Martin – Chapter 2 – Regular Expressions and Automata

An important technique used widely in NLP. In TTS, it can be applied to tasks such as detecting and expanding non-standard words.

Ladefoged (Elements) – Chapter 11 – Digital filters and LPC analysis

A brave attempt to use ‘long hand’ to spell out how LPC analysis works, but not a recommended reading.

Ladefoged (Elements) – Chapter 10 – Fourier analysis

An attempt to explain Fourier analysis. Although chapters 1-9 are great, I actually do not recommend chapter 10.