Extraction and Representation of Prosody for Speaker, Speech and Language Recognition

Extraction and Representation of Prosodic Features for Speech Processing Applications deals with prosody from speech processing point of view with topics including:

• The significance of prosody for speech processing applications
• Why prosody need to be incorporated in speech processing applications
• Different methods for extraction and representation of prosody for applications such as speech synthesis, speaker recognition, language recognition and speech recognition

This book is for researchers and students at the graduate level.