1. Significance of Prosody for Speaker, Language and Speech Recognition.- 1.1 Introduction.- 1.2 What is prosody.- 1.3 Probabilistic formulation of recognition.- 1.4 Significance of prosody for robust recognition.- 1.5 Automatic speaker recognition.- 1.6 Automatic language recognition.- 1.7 Automatic speech recognition.- 1.8 Summary.- 2. Automatic Extraction of Prosody for Speaker, Language and Speech Recognition.- 2.1 Introduction.- 2.2 Extraction and representation of prosodic features in ASR free approaches.- 2.3 Extraction and representation of prosodic features in ASR based approaches.- 2.4 Summary.- 3. Modeling and Integration of Prosody for Speaker, Language and Speech Recognition.- 3.1 Introduction.- 3.2 Modeling prosody.- 3.3 Speaker recognition systems based on prosody.- 3.4 Language recognition systems based on prosody.- 3.5 Speech recognition systems based on prosody.- 3.6 Fusion of prosodic evidence into the conventional recognition systems.- 3.7 Summary.
