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Nonlinear Speech Modeling and Applications (NN 2004)

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Speech is exceedingly nonlinear. Efforts to propose non-linear models of its dynamics are worth to be made but difficult to implement since nonlinearity is not easily handled from an engineering and mathematical point of view. This paper is an attempt to make accessible to untrained people the notion of nonlinearity in speech, revising several nonlinear speech phenomena and the engineering endeavour for modeling them.

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    Anna Esposito

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    Anna Esposito & Maria Marinaro

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Esposito, A., Marinaro, M. (2005). Some Notes on Nonlinearities of Speech. In: Chollet, G., Esposito, A., Faundez-Zanuy, M., Marinaro, M. (eds) Nonlinear Speech Modeling and Applications. NN 2004. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 3445. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11520153_1

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