Nonlinear Speech Modeling and Applications Advanced Lectures and Revised Selected Papers

This book presents the revised tutorial lectures given at the International Summer School on Nonlinear Speech Processing-Algorithms and Analysis held in Vietri sul Mare, Salerno, Italy in September 2004.
The 14 revised tutorial lectures by leading international researchers are organized in topical sections on dealing with nonlinearities in speech signals, acoustic-to-articulatory modeling of speech phenomena, data driven and speech processing algorithms, and algorithms and models based on speech perception mechanisms. Besides the tutorial lectures, 15 revised reviewed papers are included presenting original research results on task oriented speech applications.

Dealing with Nonlinearities in Speech Signals.- Some Notes on Nonlinearities of Speech.- Nonlinear Speech Processing: Overview and Possibilities in Speech Coding.- Signal Processing in a Nonlinear, NonGaussian, and Nonstationary World.- Acoustic-to-Articulatory Modeling of Speech Phenomena.- The Analysis of Voice Quality in Speech Processing.- Identification of Nonlinear Oscillator Models for Speech Analysis and Synthesis.- Speech Modelling Based on Acoustic-to-Articulatory Mapping.- Data Driven and Speech Processing Algorithms.- Underdetermined Blind Separation of Speech Signals with Delays in Different Time-Frequency Domains.- Data Driven Approaches to Speech and Language Processing.- Cepstrum-Based Harmonics-to-Noise Ratio Measurement in Voiced Speech.- Predictive Connectionist Approach to Speech Recognition.- Modeling Speech Based on Harmonic Plus Noise Models.- Algorithms and Models Based on Speech Perception Mechanisms.- Text Independent Methods for Speech Segmentation.- Nonlinear Adaptive Speech Enhancement Inspired by Early Auditory Processing.- Perceptive, Non-linear Speech Processing and Spiking Neural Networks.- Task Oriented Speech Applications.- An Algorithm to Estimate Anticausal Glottal Flow Component from Speech Signals.- Non-linear Speech Feature Extraction for Phoneme Classification and Speaker Recognition.- Segmental Scores Fusion for ALISP-Based GMM Text-Independent Speaker Verification.- On the Usefulness of Almost-Redundant Information for Pattern Recognition.- An Audio-Visual Imposture Scenario by Talking Face Animation.- Cryptographic-Speech-Key Generation Using the SVM Technique over the lp-Cepstral Speech Space.- Nonlinear Speech Features for the Objective Detection of Discontinuities in Concatenative Speech Synthesis.- Signal Sparsity Enhancement Through Wavelet Transforms in Underdetermined BSS.- A Quantitative Evaluation of a Bio-inspired Sound Segregation Technique for Two- and Three-Source Mixtures.- Application of Symbolic Machine Learning to Audio Signal Segmentation.- Analysis of an Infant Cry Recognizer for the Early Identification of Pathologies.- Graphical Models for Text-Independent Speaker Verification.- An Application to Acquire Audio Signals with ChicoPlus Hardware.- Speech Identity Conversion.- Robust Speech Enhancement Based on NPHMM Under Unknown Noise.