Martin Philippe, University Paris Diderot, France.

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