Editors’ introduction

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Acknowledgments V
3. Computers hearing children’s cries and pathologies – a foreword VII
4. Contents XI
5. List of contributors XIII
6. Editors’ introduction XV
7. 1. Understanding infant cry analysis for pathology classification 1
8. 2. Unsupervised auditory filterbank learning for infant cry classification 63
9. 3. Acoustic and prosodic analysis of vocalizations of 18-month-old toddlers with autism spectrum disorder 93
10. 4. Computer-aided speech therapy for dysarthric speakers: Statistical acoustic modeling for automated verification of pronunciation accuracy 127
11. 5. Communication improves when human or computer listeners adapt to dysarthria 181
12. 6. Role of music on infant developments 199