Keynote Talks -- Multimodal Speech Separation -- Audio Source Separation Using Hierarchical Phase-Invariant Models -- Visual Cortex Performs a Sort of Non-linear ICA -- Contributed Talks -- High Quality Emotional HMM-Based Synthesis in Spanish -- Glottal Source Estimation Using an Automatic Chirp Decomposition -- Automatic Classification of Regular vs. Irregular Phonation Types -- The Hartley Phase Spectrum as an Assistive Feature for Classification -- Speech Enhancement for Automatic Speech Recognition Using Complex Gaussian Mixture Priors for Noise and Speech -- Improving Keyword Spotting with a Tandem BLSTM-DBN Architecture -- Score Function for Voice Activity Detection -- Digital Watermarking: New Speech and Image Applications -- Advances in Ataxia SCA-2 Diagnosis Using Independent Component Analysis -- Spectral Multi-scale Product Analysis for Pitch Estimation from Noisy Speech Signal -- Automatic Formant Tracking Method Using Fourier Ridges -- Robust Features for Speaker-Independent Speech Recognition Based on a Certain Class of Translation-Invariant Transformations -- Time-Frequency Features Extraction for Infant Directed Speech Discrimination -- Wavelet Speech Feature Extraction Using Mean Best Basis Algorithm -- Perceptually Motivated Generalized Spectral Subtraction for Speech Enhancement -- Coding of Biosignals Using the Discrete Wavelet Decomposition -- Reducing Features from Pejibaye Palm DNA Marker for an Efficient Classification -- Mathematical Morphology Preprocessing to Mitigate AWGN Effects: Improving Pitch Tracking Performance in Hard Noise Conditions -- Deterministic Particle Filtering and Application to Diagnosis of a Roller Bearing -- Applications of Cumulants in Speech Processing -- The Growing Hierarchical Recurrent Self Organizing Map for Phoneme Recognition -- Phoneme Recognition Using Sparse Random Projections and Ensemble Classifiers.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the International Conference on Advances in Nonlinear Speech Processing, NOLISP 2009, held in Vic (Barcelona), Spain during June 25-27, 2009. The volume deals with new ideas, techniques and results related to alternative approaches in speech processing.