Recent Advances in Voice Signal Processing. Application Technologies. Speech Processing and Machine Translation.

Recent Advances in Biometric Systems: A Signal Processing Perspective

We were pleased to receive a total of thirty-nine submissions to the special issue on " Recent advances in biometric systems: a signal processing perspective. " The Guest Editors divided up the responsibility for the submissions, and each submission was reviewed by a minimum of two experts in the relevant area of biometrics. Following the first round of reviews, some of the submissions were rev...

Advances in phase-aware signal processing in speech communication

During the past three decades, the issue of processing spectral phase has been largely neglected in speech applications. There is no doubt that the interest of speech processing community towards the use of phase information in a big spectrum of speech technologies, from automatic speech and speaker recognition to speech synthesis, from speech enhancement and source separation to speech coding,...

Multichannel Acoustic Signal Processing for Human/Machine Interfaces - Fundamental Problems and Recent Advances

Multichannel signal processing techniques for reproduction and acquisition of audio and speech signals at the acoustic human/machine interface offer spatial selectivity and diversity as additional degrees of freedom over single-channel schemes. In this contribution, we identify the fundamental problems for acquisition and reproduction with distant sources/ listeners as signal separation problem...

Recent Advances in Example - Based Machine Translation

This book, an outcome of a 2001 workshop on Example-Based Machine Translation (EBMT) in Santiago de Compostela, very appropriately starts with a preface by professor Makoto Nagao in which he explains how the limits of rule-based Machine Translation (MT) led him to propose his translation by analogy principle in 1981 (published as Nagao, 1984). His idea, inspired by second language learning meth...

Recent Advances in Example-Based Machine Translation