Advances in Nonlinear Speech Processing: 5th International Conference on Nonlinear Speech Processing, NOLISP 2011, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain, November 7-9, 2011. Proceedings

Front Matter....Pages -
Neurological Disease Detection and Monitoring from Voice Production....Pages 1-8
Mathematical Foundations of Nonlinear, Non-Gaussian, and Time-Varying Digital Speech Signal Processing....Pages 9-16
Enhancing Spontaneous Speech Recognition with BLSTM Features....Pages 17-24
Convolutive Nonnegative Matrix Factorization with Markov Random Field Smoothing for Blind Unmixing of Multichannel Speech Recordings....Pages 25-32
Reconstruction of Speech Signals from Their Unpredictable Points Manifold....Pages 33-39
On Computational Working Memory for Speech Analysis....Pages 40-47
Oscillating Statistical Moments for Speech Polarity Detection....Pages 48-54
A Simple Approximation for Fast Nonlinear Deconvolution....Pages 55-62
Cross-Lingual English Spanish Tonal Accent Labeling Using Decision Trees and Neural Networks....Pages 63-70
Apnea Detection Based on Hidden Markov Model Kernel....Pages 71-79
A Real-Time Speech Enhancement Framework for Multi-party Meetings....Pages 80-87
Improving Spontaneous Children’s Emotion Recognition by Acoustic Feature Selection and Feature-Level Fusion of Acoustic and Linguistic Parameters....Pages 88-95
Vocal Effort Modification through Harmonics Plus Noise Model Representation....Pages 96-103
Artificial Neural Network in FPGA for Temperature Prediction....Pages 104-110
The Effects of Windowing on the Calculation of MFCCs for Different Types of Speech Sounds....Pages 111-118
Bio-inspired Phonologic Processing: From Vowel Representation Spaces to Categories....Pages 119-126
Application of Nonlinear Dynamics Characterization to Emotional Speech....Pages 127-136
Is Fundamental Frequency Meaningful for Severe Substitution Voices Such as Esophageal Speech?....Pages 137-145
Effects of Intra-frame Noise Smoothing on Speech Enhancement Algorithms....Pages 146-153
Compression of Mammography Image by SPIHT and Fractals....Pages 154-161
Intonation Based Sentence Modality Classifier for Czech Using Artificial Neural Network....Pages 162-169
Prosodic Parameters of Emotional Synthetic Speech in Czech: Perception Validation....Pages 170-176
Perceptual Effects of the Degree of Articulation in HMM-Based Speech Synthesis....Pages 177-182
Combining Mel Frequency Cepstral Coefficients and Fractal Dimensions for Automatic Speech Recognition....Pages 183-189
KPCA vs. PCA Study for an Age Classification of Speakers....Pages 190-198
The Pre-image Problem and Kernel PCA for Speech Enhancement....Pages 199-206
Nonlinear Dynamics for Hypernasality Detection....Pages 207-214
Introducing Non-linear Analysis into Sustained Speech Characterization to Improve Sleep Apnea Detection....Pages 215-223
Morphological Processing of Spectrograms for Speech Enhancement....Pages 224-231
A Simple Phenomenological Neuronal Model with Inhibitory and Excitatory Synapses....Pages 232-238
A Study of Low-variance Multi-taper Features for Distributed Speech Recognition....Pages 239-245
Comparative Evaluation of Feature Normalization Techniques for Speaker Verification....Pages 246-253
Robust Pathological Voice Detection Based on Component Information from HMM....Pages 254-261
Complexity Analysis Using Nonuniform Embedding Techniques for Voice Pathological Discrimination....Pages 262-269
Chaos for Speech Coding and Production....Pages 270-278
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