It is said, The outer edge of the mind is where subjective perception meets collective feeling and is where the spiritual realm begins. The three major aspects of lifeLiving well, inevitable part of life: the death, and life after deathare described in three different contexts with a philosophical touch to make the reader to read less and to know more. In Maya the Mohini, which is a total fiction, the author has attempted to depict the life after death of a young lady who will appear as a ...

This book discusses the impact of spectral features extracted from frame level, glottal closure regions, and pitch-synchronous analysis on the performance of language identification systems. In addition to spectral features, the authors explore prosodic features such as intonation, rhythm, and stress features for discriminating the languages. They present how the proposed spectral and prosodic features capture the language specific information from two complementary aspects, showing how th...

The book ‘Probiotics as Antifungals’ stands as a comprehensive solution for the scientific community seeking to integrate probiotics into biocontrol strategies against mycotoxigenic fungi across a range of life forms, including plants, animals, and humans. The book serves as an extensive guide that blends advanced research with practical insights, paving the way for enhanced well-being. The book offers a holistic view of health by delving into the various benefits of probiotics covering ar...

This volume focuses on the fundamentals of additive manufacturing and its components, explains why and what we do, outlines what is crucial to the user, offers details on important applications such as in the aerospace, automotive, or medical areas, and the difficult certification process.This book explores the advancements in additive manufacturing which produces solid, free-form, nearly net-shaped objects. This refers to items that are easy to use, out-of-the-box...

This book discusses the contribution of articulatory and excitation source information in discriminating sound units. The authors focus on excitation source component of speech -- and the dynamics of various articulators during speech production -- for enhancement of speech recognition (SR) performance. Speech recognition is analyzed for read, extempore, and conversation modes of speech. Five groups of articulatory features (AFs) are explored for speech recognition, in addition to conventi...

“Emotion Recognition Using Speech Features” provides coverage of emotion-specific features present in speech. The author also discusses suitable models for capturing emotion-specific information for distinguishing different emotions. The content of this book is important for designing and developing natural and sophisticated speech systems. In this Brief, Drs. Rao and Koolagudi lead a discussion of how emotion-specific information is embedded in speech and how to acquire emotion-specific k...

In this brief, the authors discuss recently explored spectral (sub-segmental and pitch synchronous) and prosodic (global and local features at word and syllable levels in different parts of the utterance) features for discerning emotions in a robust manner. The authors also delve into the complementary evidences obtained from excitation source, vocal tract system and prosodic features for the purpose of enhancing emotion recognition performance. Features based on speaking rate characterist...

This book presents a statistical parametric speech synthesis (SPSS) framework for developing a speech synthesis system where the desired speech is generated from the parameters of vocal tract and excitation source. Throughout the book, the authors discuss novel source modeling techniques to enhance the naturalness and overall intelligibility of the SPSS system. This book provides several important methods and models for generating the excitation source parameters for enhancing the overall ...

Sreenivasa Prasad P. holds MTech degree from Indian Institute of Technology, Madras.He retired in 2006 as Director, GWD, AP state.His other books are YOGA VAASISHTHTHA RATNAAKARAMU, [The Method of Liberation] through www.sukabrahmasramam.orgSYNTHESIS OF ABSTRACT SCIENCES [For Religious tolerance, Peace, Heavens, and Liberation], through Notionpress.com, Amazon.com, others.• Yoga methods are known from very ancient times, for mankind is created in the image o...

Predicting Prosody from Text for Text-to-Speech Synthesis covers the specific aspects of prosody, mainly focusing on how to predict the prosodic information from linguistic text, and then how to exploit the predicted prosodic knowledge for various speech applications. Author K. Sreenivasa Rao discusses proposed methods along with state-of-the-art techniques for the acquisition and incorporation of prosodic knowledge for developing speech systems.Positional, contextual and ...

This comprehensive treatise on cutting edge tools and research provides a fascinating insight into the rapidly evolving field of diagnostic and therapeutic endoscopy. Accomplished international researchers and clinicians discuss the latest endoscopic advances in diverse areas including obesity and associated metabolic syndromes, management of peripancreatic fluid collections, endoluminal suturing techniques, fistula closure, management of Barrett’s epithelium, cholangioscopy, chromoendosco...

This book focuses on speech processing in the presence of low-bit rate coding and varying background environments. The methods presented in the book exploit the speech events which are robust in noisy environments. Accurate estimation of these crucial events will be useful for carrying out various speech tasks such as speech recognition, speaker recognition and speech rate modification in mobile environments. The authors provide insights into designing and developing robust methods to proc...