Advances in Nonlinear Speech Processing

1. Front Matter

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2. Keynote Talks

   1. Neurological Disease Detection and Monitoring from Voice Production

      • Pedro Gómez-Vilda, Victoria Rodellar-Biarge, Víctor Nieto-Lluis, Cristina Muñoz-Mulas, Luis Miguel Mazaira-Fernández, Carlos Ramírez-Calvo et al.

      Pages 1-8

   2. Mathematical Foundations of Nonlinear, Non-Gaussian, and Time-Varying Digital Speech Signal Processing

      • Max A. Little

      Pages 9-16

3. Contributed Talks

   1. Enhancing Spontaneous Speech Recognition with BLSTM Features

      • Martin Wöllmer, Björn Schuller

      Pages 17-24

   2. Convolutive Nonnegative Matrix Factorization with Markov Random Field Smoothing for Blind Unmixing of Multichannel Speech Recordings

      • Rafal Zdunek

      Pages 25-32

   3. Reconstruction of Speech Signals from Their Unpredictable Points Manifold

      • Vahid Khanagha, Hussein Yahia, Khalid Daoudi, Oriol Pont, Antonio Turiel

      Pages 33-39

   4. On Computational Working Memory for Speech Analysis

      • Tudor S. Topoleanu

      Pages 40-47

   5. Oscillating Statistical Moments for Speech Polarity Detection

      • Thomas Drugman, Thierry Dutoit

      Pages 48-54

   6. A Simple Approximation for Fast Nonlinear Deconvolution

      • Jordi Solé-Casals, Cesar F. Caiafa

      Pages 55-62

   7. Cross-Lingual English Spanish Tonal Accent Labeling Using Decision Trees and Neural Networks

      • David Escudero-Mancebo, Lourdes Aguilar, César González Ferreras, Carlos Vivaracho Pascual, Valentín Cardeñoso-Payo

      Pages 63-70

   8. Apnea Detection Based on Hidden Markov Model Kernel

      • Carlos M. Travieso, Jesús B. Alonso, Jaime R. Ticay-Rivas, Marcos del Pozo-Baños

      Pages 71-79

   9. A Real-Time Speech Enhancement Framework for Multi-party Meetings

      • Rudy Rotili, Emanuele Principi, Stefano Squartini, Björn Schuller

      Pages 80-87

   10. Improving Spontaneous Children’s Emotion Recognition by Acoustic Feature Selection and Feature-Level Fusion of Acoustic and Linguistic Parameters

       • Santiago Planet, Ignasi Iriondo

       Pages 88-95

   11. Vocal Effort Modification through Harmonics Plus Noise Model Representation

       • Àngel Calzada, Joan Claudi Socoró

       Pages 96-103

   12. Artificial Neural Network in FPGA for Temperature Prediction

       • Santiago T. Pérez, José L. Vásquez, Carlos M. Travieso, Jesús B. Alonso

       Pages 104-110

   13. The Effects of Windowing on the Calculation of MFCCs for Different Types of Speech Sounds

       • Amelia C. Kelly, Christer Gobl

       Pages 111-118

   14. Bio-inspired Phonologic Processing: From Vowel Representation Spaces to Categories

       • Pedro Gómez-Vilda, José Manuel Ferrández-Vicente, Victoria Rodellar-Biarge, Cristina Muñoz-Mulas, Rafael Martínez-Olalla, Agustín Álvarez-Marquina et al.

       Pages 119-126

   15. Application of Nonlinear Dynamics Characterization to Emotional Speech

       • Patricia Henríquez, Jesús B. Alonso, Miguel A. Ferrer, Carlos M. Travieso, Juan R. Orozco-Arroyave

       Pages 127-136

   16. Is Fundamental Frequency Meaningful for Severe Substitution Voices Such as Esophageal Speech?

       • Yosra Ayed, Sofia Ben Jebara

       Pages 137-145

   17. Effects of Intra-frame Noise Smoothing on Speech Enhancement Algorithms

       • Anis Ben Aicha, Sofia Ben Jebara

       Pages 146-153

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Nonlinear Speech Processing, NoLISP 2011, held in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain, in November 2011. The purpose of the workshop is to present and discuss new ideas, techniques and results related to alternative approaches in speech processing that may depart from the main stream. The 33 papers presented together with 2 keynote talks were carefully reviewed and selected for inclusion in this book. The topics of NOLISP 2011 were non-linear approximation and estimation; non-linear oscillators and predictors; higher-order statistics; independent component analysis; nearest neighbors; neural networks; decision trees; non-parametric models; dynamics of non-linear systems; fractal methods; chaos modeling; and non-linear differential equations.

• computational geometry
• graph theory
• linguistic features
• neuromorphic computing
• probabilistic features

• Institute for Technological Development and Innovation in Communications (IDETIC), Signals and Communications Department, University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain

  Carlos M. Travieso-González, Jesús B. Alonso-Hernández

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