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Speaker Classification I: Fundamentals, Features, and Methods (Lecture Notes in Computer Science / Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence)

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This is a very substantive, well organized, and informative book. The articles provided come from some of the world's leaders in this vital area of speaker classification, and related forensic and automatic processing topics. Some presentations are useful, if not fully evidentiary or complete, presentations of how or why voices can be identified or classified based on the acoustic and linguistic aspects of the spoken communications. While somewhat weak on the extensive historical work on what speaker or channel distortions or variabilities can be handled to reliably provide forensically solid evidence, this work provides a valuable single-volume source for a variety of reviews of automatic speaker classification and some aspects of the aural-perceptual (human-expert) methods of analysis. Apparently a second volume is planned, hopefully to provide some guidance about additional research and development needs, and practical steps in using these tools for forensic or other practical applications.