Progress in Nonlinear Speech Processing

ISBN-13: 9783540715030 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 276 str.

Opis

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.

Spis treści

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.