"This volume contains invited and contributed papers presented at the 9th International Summer School "Neural Nets E.R. Caianiello" on Nonlinear Speech Processing: Algorithms and Analysis, held in Vietri sul Mare, Salerno, Italy, during September 13-18, 2005"--Pref.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Dealing with Nonlinearities in Speech Signals.- Some Notes on Nonlinearities of Speech.- Nonlinear Speech Processing: Overview and Possibilities in Speech Coding.- Signal Processing in a Nonlinear, NonGaussian, and Nonstationary World.- Acoustic-to-Articulatory Modeling of Speech Phenomena.- The Analysis of Voice Quality in Speech Processing.- Identification of Nonlinear Oscillator Models for Speech Analysis and Synthesis.- Speech Modelling Based on Acoustic-to-Articulatory Mapping.- Data Driven and Speech Processing Algorithms.- Underdetermined Blind Separation of Speech Signals with Delays in Different Time-Frequency Domains.- Data Driven Approaches to Speech and Language Processing.- Cepstrum-Based Harmonics-to-Noise Ratio Measurement in Voiced Speech.- Predictive Connectionist Approach to Speech Recognition.- Modeling Speech Based on Harmonic Plus Noise Models.- Algorithms and Models Based on Speech Perception Mechanisms.- Text Independent Methods for Speech Segmentation.- Nonlinear Adaptive Speech Enhancement Inspired by Early Auditory Processing.- Perceptive, Non-linear Speech Processing and Spiking Neural Networks.- Task Oriented Speech Applications.- An Algorithm to Estimate Anticausal Glottal Flow Component from Speech Signals.- Non-linear Speech Feature Extraction for Phoneme Classification and Speaker Recognition.- Segmental Scores Fusion for ALISP-Based GMM Text-Independent Speaker Verification.- On the Usefulness of Almost-Redundant Information for Pattern Recognition.- An Audio-Visual Imposture Scenario by Talking Face Animation.- Cryptographic-Speech-Key Generation Using the SVM Technique over the lp-Cepstral Speech Space.- Nonlinear Speech Features for the Objective Detection of Discontinuities in Concatenative Speech Synthesis.- Signal Sparsity Enhancement Through Wavelet Transforms in Underdetermined BSS.- A Quantitative Evaluation of a Bio-inspired Sound Segregation Technique for Two- and Three-Source Mixtures.- Application of Symbolic Machine Learning to Audio Signal Segmentation.- Analysis of an Infant Cry Recognizer for the Early Identification of Pathologies.- Graphical Models for Text-Independent Speaker Verification.- An Application to Acquire Audio Signals with ChicoPlus Hardware.- Speech Identity Conversion.- Robust Speech Enhancement Based on NPHMM Under Unknown Noise.

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