Ecostacking is a new concept and approach which aims to maximize the benefits of ecosystem service providers in cropping systems to help achieve the goal of long-term sustainable agriculture and food production. The term "ecostacking" means combining synergistically the beneficial services of functional biodiversity from all levels and types. It is a comprehensive approach, where the various ecosystem service providers are fully integrated with the rest of the cropping system including agr...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 20th National Conference on Man-Machine Speech Communication, NCMMSC 2025, held in Zhenjiang, China, during October 16–19, 2025.The 40 papers included in these proceedings were carefully reviewed and selected from 157 submissions. the conference will feature special events such as a Young Scholars Forum, Student Forum, Industry Forum, and Product and Technology Exhibition. Beyond the main program, the conference will also includ...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 19th National Conference on Man-Machine Speech Communication, NCMMSC 2024, held in Urumqi, China, during August 15–18, 2024.The 33 papers included in these proceedings were carefully reviewed and selected from 205 submissions. They deal with topics such as speech technology and large language models, audio processing, prosody modeling and dialogue systems. Key areas include speech recognition, speaker identification and verifica...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 18th National Conference on Man-Machine Speech Communication, NCMMSC 2023, held in Suzhou, China, during December 8–11, 2023.The 20 full papers and 11 short papers included in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 117 submissions. They deal with topics such as speech recognition, synthesis, enhancement and coding, audio/music/singing synthesis, avatar, speaker recognition and verification, human–computer dialogue s...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 14th National Conference on Man-Machine Speech Communication, NCMMSC 2017, held in Lianyungang, China, in October 2017.The 13 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 39 submissions. The papers address issues such as challenging issues in speech recognition and enhancement, speaker and language recognition, speech synthesis, corpus and phonetic in speech technology, speech generation, speech analyz...