Table of Contents

The COST-277 European Action: An Overview.- The COST-277 European Action: An Overview.- Neuro-fuzzy Logic in Signal Processing for Communications: From Bits to Prools.- Connected Operators for Signal and Image Processing.- Speaker Recognition.- Exploiting High-Level Information Provided by ALISP in Speaker Recognition.- MLP Internal Representation as Discriminative Features for Improved Speaker Recognition.- Weighting Scores to Improve Speaker-Dependent Threshold Estimation in Text-Dependent Speaker Verification.- Parameter Optimization in a Text-Dependent Cryptographic-Speech-Key Generation Task.- The COST-277 Speech Database.- Speech Analysis.- Children’s Organization of Discourse Structure Through Pausing Means.- F0 and Intensity Distributions of Marsec Speakers: Types of Speaker Prosody.- A Two-Level Drive – Response Model of Non-stationary Speech Signals.- Advanced Methods for Glottal Wave Extraction.- Cepstrum-Based Estimation of the Harmonics-to-Noise Ratio for Synthesized and Human Voice Signals.- Pseudo Cepstral Analysis of Czech Vowels.- Bispectrum Estimators for Voice Activity Detection and Speech Recognition.- Voice Pathologies.- On the Acoustic-to-Electropalatographic Mapping.- Issues in Clinical Applications of Bilateral Multi-step Predictive Analysis of Speech.- Optimal Size of Time Window in Nonlinear Features for Voice Quality Measurement.- Support Vector Machines Applied to the Detection of Voice Disorders.- Synthesis of Disordered Voices.- Voice Pathology Detection by Vocal Cord Biomechanical Parameter Estimation.- Speech Recognition.- A Speech Recognizer Based on Multiclass SVMs with HMM-Guided Segmentation.- Segment Boundaries in Low Latency Phonetic Recognition.- Third-Order Moments of Filtered Speech Signals for Robust Speech Recognition.- New Sub-band Processing Framework Using Non-linear Predictive Models for Speech Feature Extraction.- Noise Robust Automatic Speech Recognition with Adaptive Quantile Based Noise Estimation and Speech Band Emphasizing Filter Bank.- Spotting Multilingual Consonant-Vowel Units of Speech Using Neural Network Models.- Speech Enhancement.- Novel Sub-band Adaptive Systems Incorporating Wiener Filtering for Binaural Speech Enhancement.- Maximum a Posterior Probability and Cumulative Distribution Function Equalization Methods for Speech Spectral Estimation with Application in Noise Suppression Filtering.- Applications.- Modeling Fluctuations of Voiced Excitation for Speech Generation Based on Recursive Volterra Systems.- A Simple, Quasi-linear, Discrete Model of Vocal Fold Dynamics.- Blind Channel Deconvolution of Real World Signals Using Source Separation Techniques.- Method for Real-Time Signal Processing Via Wavelet Transform.