Extraction of Prosody for Automatic Speaker, Language, Emotion and Speech Recognition (SpringerBriefs in Speech Technology)

This updated book expands upon prosody for recognition applications of speech processing. It includes importance of prosody for speech processing applications; builds on why prosody needs to be incorporated in speech processing applications; and presents  methods for extraction and representation of prosody for applications such as  speaker recognition, language recognition and speech recognition. The updated book also includes information on the significance of prosody for emotion recognition and various prosody-based approaches for automatic emotion recognition from speech.