Extraction and Representation of Prosodic Features for Speech Processing Applications deals with prosody from speech processing point of view with topics including:

• The significance of prosody for speech processing applications
• Why prosody need to be incorporated in speech processing applications
• Different methods for extraction and representation of prosody for applications such as speech synthesis, speaker recognition, language recognition and speech recognition This book is for researchers and students at the graduate level.

Inhalt

1. Significance of Prosody for Speaker, Language and Speech Recognition.- 1.1 Introduction.- 1.2 What is prosody.- 1.3 Probabilistic formulation of recognition.- 1.4 Significance of prosody for robust recognition.- 1.5 Automatic speaker recognition.- 1.6 Automatic language recognition.- 1.7 Automatic speech recognition.- 1.8 Summary.- 2. Automatic Extraction of Prosody for Speaker, Language and Speech Recognition.- 2.1 Introduction.- 2.2 Extraction and representation of prosodic features in ASR free approaches.- 2.3 Extraction and representation of prosodic features in ASR based approaches.- 2.4 Summary.- 3. Modeling and Integration of Prosody for Speaker, Language and Speech Recognition.- 3.1 Introduction.- 3.2 Modeling prosody.- 3.3 Speaker recognition systems based on prosody.- 3.4 Language recognition systems based on prosody.- 3.5 Speech recognition systems based on prosody.- 3.6 Fusion of prosodic evidence into the conventional recognition systems.- 3.7 Summary.