Jen-Tzung Chien, 'Source Separation and Machine Learning', Academic Press

Source Separation and Machine Learning presents the fundamentals in adaptive learning
algorithms for Blind Source Separation (BSS) and emphasizes the importance of machine
learning perspectives. It illustrates how BSS problems are tackled through adaptive
learning algorithms and model-based approaches using the latest information on mixture
signals to build a BSS model that is seen as a statistical model for a whole system.
Looking at different models, including independent component analysis (ICA), nonnegative
matrix factorization (NMF), nonnegative tensor factorization (NTF), and deep neural
network (DNN), the book addresses how they have evolved to deal with multichannel and
singlechannel source separation.

Key features:
? Emphasizes the modern model-based Blind Source Separation (BSS) which closely connects
the latest research topics of BSS and Machine Learning
? Includes coverage of Bayesian learning, sparse learning, online learning,
discriminative learning and deep learning
? Presents a number of case studies of model-based BSS, using a variety of learning
algorithms that provide solutions for the construction of BSS systems

https://www.elsevier.com/books/source-separation-and-machine-learning/chien/978-0-12-804566-4

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Nous sommes heureux de vous annoncer la parution d'un recueil validé par un comité de lecture et consacré aux méthodes de recherche en prosodie. Cet ouvrage est intitulé « Methods in prosody: A Romance language perspective ».

Il est publié par Language Science Press, une maison d’édition open access. Le livre peut-être téléchargé gratuitement en cliquant sur le lien suivant :

http://langsci-press.org/catalog/book/183

La table des matières est la suivante :

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Introduction
Ingo Feldhausen, Jan Fliessbach & Maria del Mar Vanrell                                                                   iii

Foreword
Pilar Prieto                                                                                                                                              vii

I Large corpora and spontaneous speech

1) Using large corpora and computational tools to describe prosody: An
exciting challenge for the future with some (important) pending problems to solve
Juan María Garrido Almiñana                                                                                                                  3

2) Intonation of pronominal subjects in Porteño Spanish: Analysis of 
spontaneous speech
Andrea Pešková                                                                                                                                     45

II Approaches to prosodic analysis

3) Multimodal analyses of audio-visual information: Some methods and
issues in prosody research
Barbara Gili Fivela                                                                                                                                 83

4) The realizational coefficient: Devising a method for empirically
determining prominent positions in Conchucos Quechua
Timo Buchholz & Uli Reich                                                                                                                 123

5) On the role of prosody in disambiguating wh-exclamatives and
wh-interrogatives in Cosenza Italian
Olga Kellert, Daniele Panizza & Caterina Petrone                                                                               165

III Elicitation methods

6) The Discourse Completion Task in Romance prosody research: Status
quo and outlook
Maria del Mar Vanrell, Ingo Feldhausen & Lluïsa Astruc                                                                    191

7) Describing the intonation of speech acts in Brazilian Portuguese:
Methodological aspects
João Antônio de Moraes & Albert Rilliard                                                                                           229

Indexes                                                                                                                                                  263

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N'hésitez pas à diffuser la parution de cet ouvrage auprès de vos collègues qui pourraient s'y intéresser.

Bien cordialement,

Ingo Feldhausen
(Co-coordinateur d'ouvrage)

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Prosodic Patterns in English Conversation

Nigel G. Ward, Professor of Computer Science, University of Texas at El Paso

Cambridge University Press, 2019.

Spoken language is more than words: it includes the prosodic features and patterns that speakers use, subconsciously, to frame meanings and achieve interactional goals. Thanks to the application of simple processing techniques to spoken dialog corpora, this book goes beyond intonation to describe how pitch, timing, intensity and voicing properties combine to form meaningful temporal configurations: prosodic constructions. Combining new findings with hitherto-scattered observations from diverse research traditions, this book enumerates twenty of the principal prosodic constructions of English.  

http://www.cambridge.org/ward/

nigel@utep.edu    http://www.cs.utep.edu/nigel/   

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Voice Quality

The Laryngeal Articulator Model

Hardback 978-1-108-49842-5

John H. Esling, University of Victoria, British Columbia

Scott R. Moisik, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

Allison Benner, University of Victoria, British Columbia

Lise Crevier-Buchman, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Paris

The first description of voice quality production in forty years, this book

provides a new framework for its study: The Laryngeal Articulator Model.

Informed by instrumental examinations of the laryngeal articulatory

mechanism, it revises our understanding of articulatory postures to explain

the actions, vibrations and resonances generated in the epilarynx and

pharynx. It focuses on the long-term auditory-articulatory component of

accent in the languages of the world, explaining how voice quality relates to

segmental and syllabic sounds. Phonetic illustrations of phonation types

and of laryngeal and oral vocal tract articulatory postures are provided.

Extensive video and audio material is available on a companion website.

The book presents computational simulations, the laryngeal and voice

quality foundations of infant speech acquisition, speech/voice disorders and

surgeries that entail compensatory laryngeal articulator adjustment, and an

exploration of the role of voice quality in sound change and of the larynx in

the evolution of speech.

1. Voice and voice quality; 2. Voice quality classification; 3. Instrumental case

studies and computational simulations of voice quality; 4. Linguistic, paralinguistic

and extralinguistic illustrations of voice quality; 5. Phonological implications of

voice quality theory; 6. Infant acquisition of speech and voice quality; 7. Clinical

illustrations of voice quality; 8. Laryngeal articulation and voice quality in sound

change, language ontogeny.

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Albert di Cristo, les langues naturelles.
Première partie : La structure informationnelle et ses déterminants, 2019, 548 p. 

https://hal-amu.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-02149640

Cet ouvrage constitue la première partie d?un vaste travail dédié à l?étude des façons dont les langues naturelles conditionnent l?information et au rôle que joue la prosodie dans l?expression de ces conditionnements. Cette première partie se propose d?analyser, sous ses divers aspects (principalement d'ordre épistémologiques), la notion de structure informationnelle, notamment dans ses relations avec la grammaire et d?examiner, dans le détail, les déterminants qui forment l?armature de cette structure. Dans cette perspective, les discussions portent, outre sur les notions de thème, de topique et de « given », sur celles de focus, de focalisation et de contraste, qui font l?objet d?analyses approfondies. Les discussions s?attachent à appréhender ces notions, à la fois dans l?optique de leurs propriétés formelles, de leur fonctionnalité et des significations qu?elles contribuent à délivrer. Un chapitre entier de cette première partie est consacré à l?étude du questionnement et à la manière dont l?organisation de l?information est gérée dans l?exercice de cette activité. L?ouvrage est doté d?une bibliographie qui comporte plus de deux mille références.

Cet ouvrage sera complété par une 2ème partie, en cours de rédaction, qui traitera essentiellement de la prosodie et de son rôle dans les conditionnements de l'information.
 

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Benjamin Weiss (2020): 'Talker Quality in Human and Machine Interaction - Modeling the Listener’s Perspective in Passive and Interactive Scenarios'. T-Labs Series in Telecommunication Services. Springer Nature, Cham.

In this book, the background, state of research, and own contributions to the assessment and prediction of talker quality that is constituted in voice perception and in dialog are presented. Starting from theories and empirical findings from human interaction, major results and approaches are transferred to the domain of human-computer interaction. The main subject of this book is to contribute to the evaluation of spoken interaction in both humans and between human and computer, and in particular to the quality subsequently attributed to the speaking system or person, based on the listening and interactive experience.

https://rd.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-22769-2

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Dear all,

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Voice Attractiveness

Studies on Sexy, Likable, and Charismatic Speakers

Special session at Interspeech 2017

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 My name is Jens Blauert, and you may recall me as an ESCA-Founder and ISCA-Goldmedalist. Although I am professor emeritus since many years, I am still active in science.
     Recently I published an edited book together with Jonas Braasch (Professor at RPI, Troy NY) at both SPRINGER and ASA-Press. The book?s title is ?The Technology of Binaural Understanding?. It attempts to bridge between audition and cognition and thus, as far as speech communication is concerned, between speech and language. The book's motto is:

     People, when exposed to acoustic stimuli, do not react directly to what they hear
     but rather to what they hear means to them.

     Obviously this is an issue which is also relevant for speech communication at large. Thus, I kindly  ask you to consider whether this book would qualify for a book announcement in the ISCAPad. If a full book review were also feasible, I can send you an eBook-link, and after a reviewer is has been assigned, SPRINGER will deliver a printed copy to him/her.
--   Thank you for your efforts in advance!
     With best regards, Jens Blauert

.PS. Preface and  table of contents of the book are available under the following link:
      https://www.springer.com/gp/book/9783030003852      

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