Automatic detection and demarcation of non-speech sounds in speech is critical for
developing sophisticated human-machine interaction systems. The main objective of this …

Good speaker recognition systems should identify the speaker irrespective of what is
spoken, including non-speech sounds that are often produced during natural conversations …

Laughter and speech-laughs are pervasive phenomena found in conversational speech.
Nevertheless, few previous studies have compared their acoustic realization to speech. We …

To elucidate the mechanism underlying the occurrence of speech-laugh, the acoustical
difference between an initial phone of speech-laugh and phones during nonlaughing …

A robust speaker recognition system should be able to recognize a speaker despite all the
possible variations in speaker's speech. A common variation of the neutral speech is …

Conversational speech not only contains several variants of neutral speech but is also
prominently interlaced with several speaker generated non-speech sounds such as laughter …