Table of Contents

• A Decade of Encouraging Speech Processing "Outside of the Box" - A ForewordBjörn W. Schuller. 3-4 [doi]
• Recent Advances in Nonlinear Speech Processing: Directions and ChallengesAnna Esposito, Marcos Faúndez-Zanuy, Antonietta Maria Esposito, Gennaro Cordasco, Thomas Drugman, Jordi Solé-Casals, Francesco Carlo Morabito. 5-11 [doi]
• The Relationship Between the (Mis)-Parsing of Coarticulation in Perception and Sound Change: Evidence from Dissimilation and Language AcquisitionJonathan Harrington, Felicitas Kleber, Mary Stevens. 15-34 [doi]
• Nonlinear Timing and Language Processing in Norm and PathologyElzbieta Szelag, Anna Dacewicz. 35-44 [doi]
• Temporal Information Processing and Language Skills in Children with Specific Language ImpairmentAnna Dacewicz, Kamila Nowak, Elzbieta Szelag. 45-52 [doi]
• Kinematic Modelling of Dipthong ArticulationCristina Carmona-Duarte, Jesús B. Alonso, Moisés Díaz, Miguel A. Ferrer, Pedro Gómez Vilda, Réjean Plamondon. 53-60 [doi]
• Multi-class Versus One-Class Classifier in Spontaneous Speech Analysis Oriented to Alzheimer Disease DiagnosisKarmele López de Ipiña, Marcos Faúndez-Zanuy, Jordi Solé-Casals, Fernando Zelarin, Pilar M. Calvo. 63-72 [doi]
• On the Significance of Speech Pauses in Depressive Disorders: Results on Read and Spontaneous NarrativesAnna Esposito, Antonietta Maria Esposito, Laurence Likforman-Sulem, Mauro N. Maldonato, Alessandro Vinciarelli. 73-82 [doi]
• Perceptual Features as Markers of Parkinson's Disease: The Issue of Clinical InterpretabilityJirí Mekyska, Zdenek Smékal, Zoltan Galaz, Zdenek Mzourek, Irena Rektorová, Marcos Faúndez-Zanuy, Karmele López de Ipiña. 83-91 [doi]
• Phonation Biomechanics in Quantifying Parkinson's Disease Symptom SeverityPedro Gómez Vilda, Agustín Álvarez Marquina, Athanasios Tsanas, Carlos A. Lázaro Carrascosa, Victoria Rodellar-Biarge, Victor Nieto Lluis, Rafael Martínez-Olalla. 93-102 [doi]
• Language Independent Detection Possibilities of Depression by SpeechGábor Kiss, Miklós Gábriel Tulics, Dávid Sztahó, Anna Esposito, Klára Vicsi. 103-114 [doi]
• Constructing a Deep Neural Network Based Spectral Model for Statistical Speech SynthesisShinji Takaki, Junichi Yamagishi. 117-125 [doi]
• The Influence of Adaptation Database Size on the Quality of HMM-based Synthetic Voice Based on the Large Average Voice ModelMartin Sulír, Jozef Juhár. 127-136 [doi]
• Comparison of Text-Independent Original Speaker Recognition from Emotionally Converted SpeechJirí Pribil, Anna Pribilová. 137-149 [doi]
• An Analysis of Shallow and Deep Representations of Speech Based on Unsupervised Classification of Isolated WordsGiampiero Salvi. 151-157 [doi]
• ELM Based Algorithms for Acoustic Template Matching in Home Automation Scenarios: Advancements and Performance AnalysisGiulio della Porta, Emanuele Principi, Giacomo Ferroni, Stefano Squartini, Amir Hussain, Francesco Piazza. 159-168 [doi]
• Linear Versus Nonlinear Multi-scale Decomposition for Co-channel Speaker Identification SystemWajdi Ghezaiel, Amel Ben Slimane, Ezzedine Ben Braiek. 169-177 [doi]
• Wigner-Ville Representation of a Stationary Voiced Speech ModelKhawla Zammel, Noureddine Ellouze. 181-190 [doi]
• Glottal Closure Instant Detection by the Multi-scale Product of the Derivative Glottal Waveform SignalGhaya Smidi, Aïcha Bouzid, Noureddine Ellouze. 191-198 [doi]
• Non-linear Dynamics Characterization from Wavelet Packet Transform for Automatic Recognition of Emotional SpeechJuan Camilo Vásquez-Correa, Juan Rafael Orozco-Arroyave, Julián D. Arias-Londoño, Jesús Francisco Vargas Bonilla, Elmar Nöth. 199-207 [doi]
• Assessing a Set of Glottal Features from Vocal Fold BiomechanicsJ. Carlos Lázaro-Carrascosa, Pedro Gómez Vilda. 209-217 [doi]
• Pitch Estimation Based on the Cepstrum Analysis by the Multi Scale Product of Clean and Noisy SpeechWided Jlassi, Aïcha Bouzid, Noureddine Ellouze. 219-225 [doi]
• Minimizing Free Energy of Stochastic Functions of Markov ChainsRita Singh. 227-233 [doi]
• A Nonlinear Acoustic Echo Canceller with Improved Tracking CapabilitiesDanilo Comminiello, Michele Scarpiniti, Simone Scardapane, Raffaele Parisi, Aurelio Uncini. 235-243 [doi]
• When the Game Gets Difficult, then it is Time for MimicryVijay Solanki, Alessandro Vinciarelli, Jane Stuart-Smith, Rachel Smith. 247-254 [doi]
• Predicting Cognitive Load Levels from Speech DataJing Su, Saturnino Luz. 255-263 [doi]
• Unit Selection Using Acoustic Supra-Segmental Cues to Improve ProsodyAnjana Babu, Anil Kumar Sao. 265-273 [doi]
• A User-Centric Design of Service Robots Speech Interface for the ElderlyNing Wang, Frank Broz, Alessandro G. Di Nuovo, Tony Belpaeme, Angelo Cangelosi. 275-283 [doi]
• New Method for Finding Optimum Number of Characteristics to Classify Speakers by AgeCristina Muñoz-Mulas, Rafael Martínez-Olalla, Pedro Gómez Vilda, Agustín Álvarez Marquina, Luis Miguel Mazaira-Fernández. 285-292 [doi]