Recent Advances in Nonlinear Speech Processing

Front Matter....Pages i-xiv
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
A Decade of Encouraging Speech Processing “Outside of the Box”—A Foreword....Pages 3-4
Recent Advances in Nonlinear Speech Processing: Directions and Challenges....Pages 5-11
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The Relationship Between the (Mis)-Parsing of Coarticulation in Perception and Sound Change: Evidence from Dissimilation and Language Acquisition....Pages 15-34
Nonlinear Timing and Language Processing in Norm and Pathology....Pages 35-44
Temporal Information Processing and Language Skills in Children with Specific Language Impairment....Pages 45-52
Kinematic Modelling of Dipthong Articulation....Pages 53-60
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Multi-class Versus One-Class Classifier in Spontaneous Speech Analysis Oriented to Alzheimer Disease Diagnosis....Pages 63-72
On the Significance of Speech Pauses in Depressive Disorders: Results on Read and Spontaneous Narratives....Pages 73-82
Perceptual Features as Markers of Parkinson’s Disease: The Issue of Clinical Interpretability....Pages 83-91
Phonation Biomechanics in Quantifying Parkinson’s Disease Symptom Severity....Pages 93-102
Language Independent Detection Possibilities of Depression by Speech....Pages 103-114
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Constructing a Deep Neural Network Based Spectral Model for Statistical Speech Synthesis....Pages 117-125
The Influence of Adaptation Database Size on the Quality of HMM-based Synthetic Voice Based on the Large Average Voice Model....Pages 127-136
Comparison of Text-Independent Original Speaker Recognition from Emotionally Converted Speech....Pages 137-149
An Analysis of Shallow and Deep Representations of Speech Based on Unsupervised Classification of Isolated Words....Pages 151-157
ELM Based Algorithms for Acoustic Template Matching in Home Automation Scenarios: Advancements and Performance Analysis....Pages 159-168
Linear Versus Nonlinear Multi-scale Decomposition for Co-channel Speaker Identification System....Pages 169-177
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Wigner-Ville Representation of a Stationary Voiced Speech Model....Pages 181-190
Glottal Closure Instant Detection by the Multi-scale Product of the Derivative Glottal Waveform Signal....Pages 191-198
Non-linear Dynamics Characterization from Wavelet Packet Transform for Automatic Recognition of Emotional Speech....Pages 199-207
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Assessing a Set of Glottal Features from Vocal Fold Biomechanics....Pages 209-217
Pitch Estimation Based on the Cepstrum Analysis by the Multi Scale Product of Clean and Noisy Speech....Pages 219-225
Minimizing Free Energy of Stochastic Functions of Markov Chains....Pages 227-233
A Nonlinear Acoustic Echo Canceller with Improved Tracking Capabilities....Pages 235-243
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When the Game Gets Difficult, then it is Time for Mimicry....Pages 247-254
Predicting Cognitive Load Levels from Speech Data....Pages 255-263
Unit Selection Using Acoustic Supra-Segmental Cues to Improve Prosody....Pages 265-273
A User-Centric Design of Service Robots Speech Interface for the Elderly....Pages 275-283
New Method for Finding Optimum Number of Characteristics to Classify Speakers by Age....Pages 285-292
Back Matter....Pages 293-294