Extraction of Prosody for Automatic Speaker, Language, Emotion and Speech Recognition

This updated book expands upon prosody for recognition applications of speech processing. It includes importance of prosody for speech processing applications; builds on why prosody needs to be incorporated in speech processing applications; and presents methods for extraction and representation of prosody for applications such as speaker recognition, language recognition and speech recognition. The updated book also includes information on the significance of prosody for emotion recognition and various prosody-based approaches for automatic emotion recognition from speech.

Dr. Leena Mary is with Department of Technical Education, Government of Kerala, India. Currently she works as a Professor at Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, Government Engineering College Idukki. Her Research interests include speech processing, image processing and machine learning. She is the author of Extraction and Representation of Prosody for Speaker, Speech and Language Recognition (Springer 2012).