Advances in Nonlinear Speech Processing [electronic resource] : 6th International Conference, NOLISP 2013, Mons, Belgium, June 19-21, 2013. Proceedings / edited by Thomas Drugman, Thierry Dutoit.

Speech and Audio Analysis -- Evaluation of Automatic Glottal Source Analysis -- NMF-Based Spectral Analysis for Acoustic Event Classification Tasks -- Efficient GCI Detection for Efficient Sparse Linear Prediction -- Gender Detection in Running Speech from Glottal and Vocal Tract Correlates -- An Efficient Method for Fundamental Frequency Determination of Noisy Speech -- Glottal Source Model Selection for Stationary Singing-Voice by Low-Band Envelope Matching -- Contribution to the Multipitch Estimation by Multi-scale Product Analysis -- Speech Signals Parameterization Based on Auditory Filter Modeling -- Towards a Better Representation of the Envelope Modulation of Aspiration Noise -- Speech Synthesis -- Towards Physically Interpretable Parametric Voice Conversion Functions -- Reduced Search Space Frame Alignment Based on Kullback-Leibler Divergence for Voice Conversion -- Average Voice Modeling Based on Unbiased Decision Trees -- Non-linear Pitch Modification in Voice Conversion Using Artificial Neural Networks -- Speech-Based Biomedical Applications -- Analysis and Quantification of Acoustic Artefacts in Tracheoesophageal Speech -- Analysis of Speech from People with Parkinson's Disease through Nonlinear Dynamics -- Synthesis by Rule of Disordered Voices -- Towards a Low-Complex Breathing Monitoring System Based on Acoustic Signals -- Automatic Detection of Laryngeal Pathologies in Running Speech Based on the HMM Transformation of the Nonlinear Dynamics -- Feature Extraction Approach Based on Fractal Dimension for Spontaneous Speech Modelling Oriented to Alzheimer Disease Diagnosis -- Automatic Speech Recognition -- Robust Hierarchical and Sparse Representation of Natural Sounds in High-Dimensional Space -- On the Importance of Pre-emphasis and Window Shape in Phase-Based Speech Recognition -- Smoothed Nonlinear Energy Operator-Based Amplitude Modulation Features for Robust Speech Recognition -- Fuzzy Phonetic Decoding Method in a Phoneme Recognition Problem -- Improved EMD Usable Speech Detection for Co-channel Speaker Identification -- Speech Enhancement -- Speech Enhancement: A Multivariate Empirical Mode Decomposition Approach -- Speech Denoising Based on Empirical Mode Decomposition and Improved Thresholding -- A Fast Semi-blind Reverberation Time Estimation Using Non-linear Least Squares Method.