Advances in Nonlinear Speech Processing: 6th International Conference, NOLISP 2013, Mons, Belgium, June 19-21, 2013. Proceedings

✍ Scribed by John Kane, Christer Gobl (auth.), Thomas Drugman, Thierry Dutoit (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
• Year: 2013
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 225
• Series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science 7911
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Nonlinear Speech Processing, NOLISP 2013, held in Mons, Belgium, in June 2013. The 27 refereed papers included in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 34 submissions. The paper are organized in topical sections on speech and audio analysis; speech synthesis; speech-based biomedical applications; automatic speech recognition; and speech enhancement.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages -
Evaluation of Automatic Glottal Source Analysis....Pages 1-8
NMF-Based Spectral Analysis for Acoustic Event Classification Tasks....Pages 9-16
Efficient GCI Detection for Efficient Sparse Linear Prediction....Pages 17-24
Gender Detection in Running Speech from Glottal and Vocal Tract Correlates....Pages 25-32
An Efficient Method for Fundamental Frequency Determination of Noisy Speech....Pages 33-41
Glottal Source Model Selection for Stationary Singing-Voice by Low-Band Envelope Matching....Pages 42-49
Contribution to the Multipitch Estimation by Multi-scale Product Analysis....Pages 50-59
Speech Signals Parameterization Based on Auditory Filter Modeling....Pages 60-66
Towards a Better Representation of the Envelope Modulation of Aspiration Noise....Pages 67-74
Towards Physically Interpretable Parametric Voice Conversion Functions....Pages 75-82
Reduced Search Space Frame Alignment Based on Kullback-Leibler Divergence for Voice Conversion....Pages 83-88
Average Voice Modeling Based on Unbiased Decision Trees....Pages 89-96
Non-linear Pitch Modification in Voice Conversion Using Artificial Neural Networks....Pages 97-103
Analysis and Quantification of Acoustic Artefacts in Tracheoesophageal Speech....Pages 104-111
Analysis of Speech from People with Parkinson’s Disease through Nonlinear Dynamics....Pages 112-119
Synthesis by Rule of Disordered Voices....Pages 120-127
Towards a Low-Complex Breathing Monitoring System Based on Acoustic Signals....Pages 128-135
Automatic Detection of Laryngeal Pathologies in Running Speech Based on the HMM Transformation of the Nonlinear Dynamics....Pages 136-143
Feature Extraction Approach Based on Fractal Dimension for Spontaneous Speech Modelling Oriented to Alzheimer Disease Diagnosis....Pages 144-151
Robust Hierarchical and Sparse Representation of Natural Sounds in High-Dimensional Space....Pages 152-159
On the Importance of Pre-emphasis and Window Shape in Phase-Based Speech Recognition....Pages 160-167
Smoothed Nonlinear Energy Operator-Based Amplitude Modulation Features for Robust Speech Recognition....Pages 168-175
Fuzzy Phonetic Decoding Method in a Phoneme Recognition Problem....Pages 176-183
Improved EMD Usable Speech Detection for Co-channel Speaker Identification....Pages 184-191
Speech Enhancement: A Multivariate Empirical Mode Decomposition Approach....Pages 192-199
Speech Denoising Based on Empirical Mode Decomposition and Improved Thresholding....Pages 200-207
A Fast Semi-blind Reverberation Time Estimation Using Non-linear Least Squares Method....Pages 208-215
Back Matter....Pages -

✦ Subjects

Pattern Recognition; Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics); Language Translation and Linguistics; Computer Science, general; Computer Science, general