Gennaro Cordasco – författare

This book presents recent advances in nonlinearspeech processing beyond nonlinear techniques. It shows that it exploitsheuristic and psychological models of human interaction in order to succeed inthe implementations of socially believable VUIs and applications for humanhealth and psychological support. The book takes into account themultifunctional role of speech and what is “outside of the box” (see BjörnSchuller’s foreword). To this aim, the book is organized in 6 sections, eachcollecting a small number of short chapters reporting advances “inside” and“outside” themes related to nonlinear speech research. The themes emphasizetheoretical and practical issues for modelling socially believable speechinterfaces, ranging from efforts to capture the nature of sound changes inlinguistic contexts and the timing nature of speech; labors to identify anddetect speech features that help in the diagnosis of psychological and neuronaldisease, attempts to improve the effectiveness and performance of Voice UserInterfaces, new front-end algorithms for the coding/decoding of effective andcomputationally efficient acoustic and linguistic speech representations, aswell as investigations capturing the social nature of speech in signalingpersonality traits, emotions and improving human machine interactions.

This book illustrates recent advances in Neural Artificial Intelligent Theories and Applications discussed by selected papers presented at 30th edition of the International Workshops on Neural Network (WIRN 2023). The book discusses novel technologies for unsupervised multimodal complex autonomous systems using new generation of AI algorithms. The book also reports on advanced acoustical, perceptual, and psychological analysis of verbal and non-verbal communication of signals originating in spontaneous face-to-face interaction, automatic procedures capable of recognizing human emotional states, and applications improving the performance of human–machine interaction for the deployment of socially and emotionally believable assistive technologies.