Shankha Sanyal – författare

This book offers a holistic perspective, integrating linguistics, speech/musical acoustics, and their cognitive interfaces. We are privileged to commemorate Sir C.V. Raman's seminal 1920 paper on Musical Acoustics by presenting cutting-edge research in speech and musical acoustics within these Proceedings of Frontiers of Research in Speech and Music 2024.Over the past century, scientific advancements have been monumental, spanning from macro to femto scales. In India, speech and musical acoustics have been fostered since the 1920s, with theoretical and experimental tools evolving significantly. Methodologies for speech and music analysis have progressed from early spectral domain linear features to nonlinear stochastic analysis and, most recently, to neural network-based machine learning architectures for audio feature extraction. The development of bio-sensors has provided profound insights into autonomic and central nervous system function under various speech signals and musical genres. Modern analytical techniques also enable the assessment of speech and language disorders, with a special focus on interventional music therapy.The FRSM-2024 proceedings cover diverse topics, including:*        Novel speech and music signal processing techniques.*        Speech-language pathology and its applications.*        Analysis of linguistic variations across Southeast Asian language families.*        Speech characteristics in individuals with language disorders.*        The concept of improvisation in Hindustani classical music.*        Emotional appraisal from music and speech signals.*        Application of music technology in profile analysis.*        Neuro-cognition in speech, music, and interdisciplinary domains.The editors anticipate that this publication will be a valuable resource for the acoustical community, and its interdisciplinary nature will engage young scientists, students, music practitioners, speech scientists, linguists, neuroscientists, and music therapists, inspiring further contributions to this rich field.

This book is of interest to researchers and scholars of music and the brain, nonlinear science, music cognition, music signal processing and music information retrieval.

This book provides a comprehensive overview of how fractal analytics can lead to the extraction of interesting features from the complex electroencephalograph (EEG) signals generated by Hindustani classical music. It particularly focuses on how the brain responses to the emotional attributes of Hindustani classical music that have been long been a source of discussion for musicologists and psychologists. Using robust scientific techniques that are capable of looking into the most intricate dynamics of the complex EEG signals, it deciphers the human brain’s response to different ragas of Hindustani classical music, shedding new light on what happens inside the performer’s brain when they are mentally composing the imagery of a particular raga. It also explores the much- debated issue in the musical fraternity of whether there are any universal cues in music that make it identifiable for people throughout the world, and if so, what are the neural correlates associated with the universal cues? This book is of interest to researchers and scholars of music and the brain, nonlinear science, music cognition, music signal processing and music information retrieval. In addition, researchers in the field of nonlinear biomedical signal processing and music signal analysis benefit from this book.

This book is of interest to researchers and scholars of music and the brain, nonlinear science, music cognition, music signal processing and music information retrieval.

This book is a multidisciplinary exploration of the concept of rhythm in diverse fields that are closely connected with our life and felt experience, namely, spirituality, language and literature, ecology, socio-cultural contexts, music, visual arts, and well-being. Bringing together a collection of 24 essays by both eminent and young scholars which cover these diverse fields, its uniqueness lies in the way that each essay provides insight into the concept of rhythm and also links itself to other related disciplines. A book bridges the divide between humanities, social, and behavioral sciences, and it is a must read book for anyone who is interested either in the concepts of rhythm, cycle, harmony, and their ubiquitous presence in all fields of knowledge.

This book features original papers from 27th International Symposium on Frontiers of Research in Speech and Music (FRSM 2023), jointly organized by Sardar Vallabhbhai National Institute of Technology, Surat, India, and Sir C.V. Raman Centre for Physics and Music, Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India, during 4–5 August 2023. The book is organized into four main sections, considering both technological advancement and interdisciplinary nature of speech, music, language and their applications. The first section includes chapters related to computational, modelling and cognitive aspects of the speech signal. The second part contains chapters covering the foundations of both vocal and instrumental music processing with the signal, computational and cognitive aspects. The third section relates to the variety of research being done in the peripheral areas of languages and linguistics with special focus on regional languages of India. A lot of research is being performed within the speech and music information retrieval domain which is potentially interesting for most users of computers and the Internet. Therefore, the fourth and final section is dedicated to the chapters related to multidisciplinary applications of speech and music signal processing.