Progress in Nonlinear Speech Processing

This book constitutes of the major results of the EU COST (European Cooperation in the field of Scientific and Technical Research) Action 277: NSP, Nonlinear Speech Processing, running from April 2001 to June 2005. These results were presented at the last meeting of the management committee of COST Action 277, held in Heraklion, Crete, Greece 1n September 2005 during the Workshop on Nonlinear Speech Processing, WNSP 2005.

The 13 revised full papers in this state-of-the-art survey were carefully reviewed and selected for inclusion in the book and are preceded with an introduction by the editors. The articles present overviews of the four years research combining linear and non linear approaches for processing the speech signal. Coverage includes such areas as speech analysis for speech synthesis, speech recognition, speech-non speech discrimination and voice quality assessment, speaker recognition/verification from a natural or modified speech signal, speech enhancement, and emotional state detection.

The book provides an additional and/or an alternative way to the traditional approach of linear speech processing.