Recent Advances in Nonlinear Speech Processing

This book presents recent advances in nonlinear speech processing beyond nonlinear techniques. It shows that it exploits heuristic and psychological models of human interaction in order to succeed in the implementations of socially believable VUIs and applications for human health and psychological support. The book takes into account the multifunctional role of speech and what is outside of the box (see Björn Schuller's foreword). To this aim, the book is organized in 6 sections, each collecting a small number of short chapters reporting advances inside and outside themes related to nonlinear speech research. The themes emphasize theoretical and practical issues for modelling socially believable speech interfaces, ranging from efforts to capture the nature of sound changes in linguistic contexts and the timing nature of speech; labors to identify and detect speech features that help in the diagnosis of psychological and neuronal disease, attempts to improve the effectiveness and performance of Voice User Interfaces, new front-end algorithms for the coding/decoding of effective and computationally efficient acoustic and linguistic speech representations, as well as investigations capturing the social nature of speech in signaling personality traits, emotions and improving human machine interactions.

Recent research on Nonlinear Speech Processing Results of the International Conference on NONLINEAR SPEECH PROCESSING, NOLISP 2015 jointly organized with the 25th Italian Workshop on Neural Networks, WIRN 2015, held at May 2015, Vietri sul Mare, Salerno, Italy Reports recent applications of Intelligent Systems in Speech Processing Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Inhalt
Nonlinear Speech Processing: An Introduction.- Features of Sound Change.- Identifying Psychological, and Neural Disorders from Speech.- Improving VUI.- Identifying New Nonlinear Coding and DecodingFeatures.- The Social Life of Speech Features.