Tuyển tập báo cáo các nghiên cứu khoa học quốc tế ngành hóa học dành cho các bạn yêu hóa học tham khảo đề tài: Editorial Analysis and Signal Processing of Oesophageal and Pathological Voices | Hindawi Publishing Corporation EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing Volume 2009 Article ID 283504 4 pages doi 2009 283504 Editorial Analysis and Signal Processing of Oesophageal and Pathological Voices Juan Ignacio Godino-Llorente 1 Pedro Gomez-Vilda EURASIP Member 2 and Tan Lee3 department of Circuits Systems Engineering Universidad Politecnica de Madrid Carretera Valencia Km 7 28031 Madrid Spain department of Computer Science Engineering Universidad Politecnica de Madrid Campus de Montegancedo Boadilla del Monte 28660 Madrid Spain department of Electronic Engineering The Chinese University of Hong Kong Shatin New Territories Hong Kong Correspondence should be addressed to Juan Ignacio Godino-Llorente igodino@ Received 29 October 2009 Accepted 29 October 2009 Copyright 2009 Juan Ignacio Godino-Llorente et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License which permits unrestricted use distribution and reproduction in any medium provided the original work is properly cited. 1. Introduction Speech not only is limited to the process of communication but also is very important for transferring emotions it is a small part of our personality reflects situations of stress and has a cosmetic added value in many different professional activities. Since speech communication is fundamental to human interaction we are moving toward a new scenario where speech is gaining greater importance in our daily lives. On the other hand modern styles of life have increased the risk of experiencing some kind of voice alterations. In this sense the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders NIDCD pointed out that approximately million people in the United States have trouble using their voices 1 . Even though providing statistics on people affected by voice disorders is a very difficult task as reported in 2 it is underlined that between 5 and 10 of the US working population have to be .
