Advances in Nonlinear Speech Processing

Keynote Talks.- Multimodal Speech Separation.- Audio Source Separation Using Hierarchical Phase-Invariant Models.- Visual Cortex Performs a Sort of Non-linear ICA.- Contributed Talks.- High Quality Emotional HMM-Based Synthesis in Spanish.- Glottal Source Estimation Using an Automatic Chirp Decomposition.- Automatic Classification of Regular vs. Irregular Phonation Types.- The Hartley Phase Spectrum as an Assistive Feature for Classification.- Speech Enhancement for Automatic Speech Recognition Using Complex Gaussian Mixture Priors for Noise and Speech.- Improving Keyword Spotting with a Tandem BLSTM-DBN Architecture.- Score Function for Voice Activity Detection.- Digital Watermarking: New Speech and Image Applications.- Advances in Ataxia SCA-2 Diagnosis Using Independent Component Analysis.- Spectral Multi-scale Product Analysis for Pitch Estimation from Noisy Speech Signal.- Automatic Formant Tracking Method Using Fourier Ridges.- Robust Features for Speaker-Independent Speech Recognition Based on a Certain Class of Translation-Invariant Transformations.- Time-Frequency Features Extraction for Infant Directed Speech Discrimination.- Wavelet Speech Feature Extraction Using Mean Best Basis Algorithm.- Perceptually Motivated Generalized Spectral Subtraction for Speech Enhancement.- Coding of Biosignals Using the Discrete Wavelet Decomposition.- Reducing Features from Pejibaye Palm DNA Marker for an Efficient Classification.- Mathematical Morphology Preprocessing to Mitigate AWGN Effects: Improving Pitch Tracking Performance in Hard Noise Conditions.- Deterministic Particle Filtering and Application to Diagnosis of a Roller Bearing.- Applications of Cumulants in Speech Processing.- The Growing Hierarchical Recurrent Self Organizing Map for Phoneme Recognition.- Phoneme Recognition Using Sparse Random Projections and Ensemble Classifiers.