The book explores new ways to reconstruct and enhance speech that is compromised by various neuro-motor disorders collectively known as dysarthria. The authors address some of the extant lacunae in speech research of dysarthric conditions: they show how new methods can improve speaker recognition when speech is impaired due to developmental or acquired pathologies; they present a novel multi-dimensional approach to help the speech system both assess dysarthric speech and to perform intelligibility improvement of the impaired speech; they display well-performing software solutions for developmental and acquired speech impairments, and for vocal injuries; and they examine non-acoustic signals and muted nonverbal sounds in relation to audible speech conversion.

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Hemant Patil, India; Amy Neustein, USA.

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2. Anshu Chittora and Hemant A. Patil, Analysis of normal and pathological infant cry.

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8. Vinay Kumar Mittal, Analysis of Shout and Automatic Detection for Healthcare Application.

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10. T. V. Ananthapadmanabha, Application of Speech Signal Processing for Voice Assessment, Voice and Speech Therapy.