Speaker Classification II: Selected Papers

As well as conveying a message in words and sounds, the speech signal carries information about the speaker's own anatomy, physiology, linguistic experience and mental state. These speaker characteristics are found in speech at all levels of description: from the spectral information in the sounds to the choice of words and utterances themselves.

This two volume set, LNAI 4343 and LNAI 4441, constitutes a state—of—the—art survey for the field of speaker classification. It approaches the fo...