1. The sound 2. Pure sound and real 3. In the good old days 4. From the mechanism of phonation to the speech signal 5. Fourier has arrived: the harmonic representation 6. Prony has also arrived: the source-filter model 7. Fourier, Prony and speech analysis 8.

Wavelet analysis 9. Laryngeal frequency and fundamental frequency 10. Return to sources: from the speech signal to phonation 11. Articulatory models 12. Reading spectrograms 13. Morphing prosodic 14. Automatic alignment 15. Synthesis of speech 16.

Machines and algorithms 17. Practical work 18. Appendices.