The Recent and Latest Developments in Speech and Audio Processing
A special issue of Electronics (ISSN 2079-9292). This special issue belongs to the section "Computer Science & Engineering".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 15 January 2026 | Viewed by 16
Special Issue Editors
Interests: voice quality; speech synthesis; electroglottography; ASR; TTS ; acoustic analysis; signal processing; signal analysis
Interests: digital signal processing; music information retrieval; voice analysis; acoustics; genetic algorithms; electroacoustics; pattern recognition in music using deep learning
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
We invite submissions for this Special Issue, "The Recent and Latest Developments in Speech and Audio Processing", which aims to showcase novel research and practical innovations at the intersection of speech science, audio engineering, and intelligent systems. This Special Issue welcomes contributions that address hardware and software solutions, emphasizing artificial intelligence (AI)-based approaches.
We encourage submissions that present theoretical advancements, experimental evaluations, or application-oriented systems across various domains, including healthcare, human–computer interactions, and auditory environments.
Topics of Interest
- Speech and Emotion Synthesis: Hardware and software systems for generating expressive, contextsensitive speech, including deep learning-based models;
- Voice Quality Assessment: Techniques and tools for evaluating vocal characteristics, especially in professional voice users such as choir singers and educators;
- Speech- and Voice-Based Medical Diagnostics: AI-enhanced diagnostic platforms and signal analysis methods for clinical speech and voice assessment;
- Machine Learning and AI for Speech Applications: Classifiers and models for emotion recognition, speaker identification, pathology detection, and related tasks;
- Audiology and Hearing Prosthetics: Design and evaluation of digital signal processing algorithms, hearing aids, and cochlear implants;
- Speech Intelligibility and Comprehension: Intelligent systems for speech perception in adverse conditions, including assistive technologies;
- Occupational Noise and Voice Health: Monitoring systems and intervention strategies addressing noise exposure and vocal strain in the workplace;
- Speech Corpora: Creation, annotation, and use of high-quality speech databases for training and benchmarking AI models;
- Speaker and Speech Separation: Hardware and software implementations for multi-speaker audio processing using signal processing and deep learning techniques.
Prof. Dr. Krzysztof Szklanny
Dr. Piotr Wrzeciono
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- speech synthesis
- speech quality
- acoustic methods
- voice analysis
- signal processing
- electroglottography
- acoustic database
- speech separation
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