Recent Advances in Nonlinear Speech Processing

288 Pages·2016·8.51 MB·English

by  Anna Esposito

Smart Innovation, Systems and Technologies 48
Anna Esposito · Marcos Faundez-Zanuy
Antonietta M. Esposito · Gennaro Cordasco
Thomas Drugman · Jordi Solé-Casals
Francesco Carlo Morabito Editors
Recent Advances
in Nonlinear
Speech
Processing
Smart Innovation, Systems and Technologies
Volume 48
Series editors
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Lakhmi C. Jain, Bournemouth University, Poole, UK, and
University of South Australia, Adelaide, Australia
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Francesco Carlo Morabito
Editors
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in Nonlinear Speech
Processing
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Editors
Anna Esposito ThomasDrugman
Department ofPsychology University of Mons,TCTS Lab.31,
Seconda Universitàdi NapoliandIIASS BoulevardDolez
Caserta Mons
Italy Belgium
Marcos Faundez-Zanuy Jordi Solé-Casals
EscolaSuperior PolitècnicaTecnocampus DataandSignalProcessingResearchGroup
(PompeuFabraUniversity) University of Vic
Mataró Vic
Spain Spain
Antonietta M.Esposito Francesco CarloMorabito
Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Universitàdegli Studi Mediterranea di
Vulcanologia, sezione diNapoli ReggioCalabria
Osservatorio Vesuviano ReggioCalabria
Naples Italy
Italy
Gennaro Cordasco
Department ofPsychology
Seconda Universita di NapoliandIIASS
Caserta
Italy
ISSN 2190-3018 ISSN 2190-3026 (electronic)
Smart Innovation,Systems andTechnologies
ISBN978-3-319-28107-0 ISBN978-3-319-28109-4 (eBook)
DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-28109-4
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Preface
This volume brings together through a peer-revision process advanced research
resultsobtainedonnonlinearspeechprocessing,followingthetraditioninitiatedby
theEuropeanCOSTAction277:“NonlinearSpeechProcessing”(http://www.cost.
eu/COST_Actions/ict/277). The research published in this book was discussed for
thefirsttimeatthe7theditionoftheInternationalWorkshopon“NonlinearSpeech
Processing (NOLISP)” held in Vietri sul Mare, Italy, on May 18–20, 2015.
The workshop afforded a change of perspective innonlinear speech processing,
where the research focus moved from “engineering tools” to “interactional
exchanges” and asked for investigations of coding/decoding and computational
processes,andsocialandcognitivespeechfeaturesforimprovingthequalityoflife
of end users of communicative interfaces exploiting speech as the main commu-
nicativetoolforhuman–machineinteraction.Theconsequencesshouldresultinthe
development of autonomous, adaptive voice user interfaces (VUIs) able to exploit
linguisticandparalinguisticinformationandallowfreeformofconversations.This
approach will foster traverse investigations on the multifunctional role of speech
and multimodal communication modes that account for gestures, emotions, and
social signal processing for developing friendly and socially believable interactive
dialogue systems.
The editors would like to thank the staff of the International Institute for
Advanced Scientific Studies (IIASS), who provided precious technical support in
the organization of the NOLISP 2015. In addition, the editors are grateful to the
contributors for making this book a scientifically stimulating compilation of new
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and original ideas, and the NOLISP International Scientific Committee for their
rigorous and invaluable scientific revisions, their dedication, and their priceless
selection process.
November 2015 Anna Esposito
Marcos Faundez-Zanuy
Antonietta M. Esposito
Gennaro Cordasco
Thomas Drugman
Jordi Solé-Casals
Francesco Carlo Morabito
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International Scienti c Committee
Frédéric Bettens, University of Mons, Belgium
Tony Belpaeme, Plymouth University, UK
Baris Bozkurt, Bahcesehir University, Turkey
Štefan Beňuš, Constantine the Philosopher University, Nitra, Slovakia
Jonas Beskow, Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden
Jean-Francois Bonastre, Universit d’Avignon, France
Nikolaos Bourbakis, Wright State University, Dayton, USA
Joao Cabral, University College Dublin, Ireland
Angelo Cangelosi, Plymouth University, UK
Germán Castellanos, National University of Colombia
Michele Ceccarelli, Universit del Sannio, Italy
Mohamed Chetouani, Universit Pierre et Marie Curie, France
Gérard Chollet, CNRS URA-820, ENST, TSI Department, France
Anton Cizmar, Technical University of Kosice, Slovakia
Gennaro Cordasco, Seconda Università di Napoli and IIASS, Italy
Nicholas Costen, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK
Christophe Dalessandro, LIMSI, France
Vlado Delic, University of Novi Sad, Serbia
Alessandro Di Nuovo, Plymouth University, UK
Thomas Drugman, University of Mons, Belgium
Gilles Degottex, University of Crete, Greece
Stéphane Dupont, University of Mons, Belgium
Daniel Erro, University of the Basque Country, Bilbao, Spain
Anna Esposito, Seconda Universit di Napoli and IIASS, Italy
Antonietta Maria Esposito, Osservatorio Vesuviano, Napoli, Italy
Marcos Faúndez-Zanuy, ESUPT, Barcelona, Spain
Milan Gnjatovič, University of Novi Sad, Serbia
Juan Ignacio Godino, UPM, Spain
Pedro Gómez-Vilda, UPM, Spain
Guillaume Gravier, CNRS, France
Francis Grenez, Free University of Bruxelles, Belgium
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Jonathan Harrington, Ludwig-Maximilians University of Munich, Germany
Amir Hussain, University of Stirling, UK
Jozef Juhár, Technical University Kosice, Slovak Republic
John Kane, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
Maria Koutsombogera, Institute for Language and Speech Processing, Greece
Bernd Kröger, Aachen University, Germany
Gernot Kubin, Graz University of Technology, Austria
Karmele Lopez-De-Ipina, Basque Country University, Spain
Jorge Lucero, University of Brasilia, Brazil
Saturnino Luz, University of Edinburgh, UK
Rytis Maskeliunas, Kaunas University of Technology, Lithuania
Jiří Mekyska, Brno University of Technology, Czech Republic
Francesco C. Morabito, Universit “Mediterranea” di Reggio Calabria, Italy
Rieks Op Den Akker, University of Twente, The Netherlands
Eros Pasero, Politecnico di Torino, Italy
Francesco Piazza, Universit Politecnica delle Marche, Italy
Jiří Přibil, Academy of Sciences, Czech Republic
Anna Přibilová, Slovak University of Technology, Slovakia
Steve Renals, University of Edinburgh, Scotland
Korin Richmond, University of Edinburgh, Scotland
Matej Rojc, University of Maribor, Slovenia
Jean Rouat, University of Sherbrooke, Canada
Zsófia Ruttkay, Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design, Budapest
Giampiero Salvi, Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden
Michele Scarpiniti, Universit di Roma “La Sapienza”, Italy
Jean Schoentgen, Free University of Bruxelles, Belgium
Bjorn Schuller, Munich University of Technology, Germany
Zdenek Smékal, Brno University of Technology, Czech Republic
Simone Scardapane, Universit di Roma “La Sapienza”, Italy
Michele Scarpiniti, Universit di Roma “La Sapienza”, Italy
Jordi Solé-Casals, University of Vic, Spain
Stefano Squartini, Universit Politecnica delle Marche, Italy
Antonio Satue-Villar, EUPMT, Barcelona, Spain
Björn W. Schuller, Imperial College, UK and University of Passau, Germany
Yannis Stylianou, University of Cambridge, England
Jing Su, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
Jianhua Tao, Chinese Academy of Sciences, P.R. China
Isabel Trancoso, INESC, Portugal
Carlos M. Travieso-Gonzalez, University of Las Palmas de GC, Spain
Alda Troncone, Second University of Naples, Italy
Christophe Veaux, University of Edinburgh, Scotland
Alessandro Vinciarelli, University of Glasgow, UK
Fernando Villavicencio, Yamaha, Japan
Hannes Högni Vilhjlmsson, Reykjavik University, Iceland
Carl Vogel, Trinity College of Dublin, Ireland
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Junichi Yamagishi, University of Edinburgh, Scotland
Aurelio Uncini, Universit di Roma “La Sapienza”, Italy
Jerneja Žganec Gros, Alpineon, Development and Research, Slovenia
Sponsoring Institutions
Seconda Università degli Studi di Napoli
International Speech Communication Association (ISCA)
International Institute for Advanced Scientific Studies “E.R. Caianiello” (IIASS)
Società Italiana Reti Neuroniche (SIREN)