Preface: Special Section: Advances in Speech, Music and Audio Signal processing (Articles 1-13)

摘要

Speech, music and audio signals are vital in communication (e.g. sharing information) as well as entertainment. Automatic processing of such signal processing reduces expert's and/or human's intervention. With the advances in system architectures, machine learning and deep learning techniques, smart processing is possible in various areas, such as speech synthesis, mining and recognition; human-machine interactions; and unstructured data retrieval. Similarly, music signals are of importance since they contain special structural characteristics, where feature representations and analysis could potentially be different.