Progress in Nonlinear Speech Processing

by Yannis Stylianou (Editor), Marcos Faundez-Zanuy (Editor), Anna Eposito (Editor)

Overview

This book constitutes of the major results of the EU COST (European Cooperation in the field of Scientific and Technical Research) Action 277: NSP, Nonlinear Speech Processing, running from April 2001 to June 2005. Coverage includes such areas as speech analysis for speech synthesis, speech recognition, speech-non speech discrimination and voice quality assessment, speech enhancement, and emotional state detection.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783540715030
Publisher:	Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Publication date:	05/03/2007
Series:	Lecture Notes in Computer Science , #4391
Edition description:	2007
Pages:	276
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.25(h) x 0.02(d)

Table of Contents

A Review of Glottal Waveform Analysis.- Rahmonic Analysis of Signal Regularity in Synthesized and Human Voice.- Spectral Analysis of Speech Signals Using Chirp Group Delay.- Towards Neurocomputational Speech and Sound Processing.- Extraction of Speech-Relevant Information from Modulation Spectrograms.- On the Detection of Discontinuities in Concatenative Speech Synthesis.- Voice Disguise and Automatic Detection: Review and Perspectives.- Audio-visual Identity Verification: An Introductory Overview.- Text-Independent Speaker Verification: State of the Art and Challenges.- Nonlinear Predictive Models: Overview and Possibilities in Speaker Recognition.- SVMs for Automatic Speech Recognition: A Survey.- Nonlinear Speech Enhancement: An Overview.- The Amount of Information on Emotional States Conveyed by the Verbal and Nonverbal Channels: Some Perceptual Data.