Dear Colleagues,

Audio plays an important role in everyday life since it is incorporated in various applications from broadcasting and telecommunications to the entertainment, multimedia, and gaming industries. Although less popular than image processing technology, which has overwhelmed the industry in recent years, audio processing in academia is under vigorous research and technological development. The relevant research initiatives are involved with speech recognition, audio compression, noise canceling, speaker verification and identification, voice synthesis, and voice transcription systems, to name a few. Furthermore, with respect to music signals, research initiatives focus on music information retrieval for music streaming and recommendation, networked music making, teaching and performing, autonomous, semi-autonomous computer musicians, and many more. This Special Issue gives the opportunity to disseminate state of the art progress on emerging applications, algorithms, and systems related to audio, speech, and music processing and analysis. 

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

• Audio and speech analysis and recognition.
• Deep learning for robust speech recognition systems.
• Active noise cancelling systems.
• Blind speech separation.
• Robust speech recognition in multi-simultaneous speaker environments.
• Room acoustics modeling.
• Environmental sound recognition.
• Music information retrieval.
• Networked music performance systems.
• Internet of Sounds technologies and applications.
• Computer accompaniment and machine musicianship.
• Digital music representations and collaborative music making.
• Online music education technologies.
• Computational approaches to musical acoustics.
• Music generation using deep learning.

Dr. Athanasios Koutras
Dr. Chrisoula Alexandraki
Guest Editors

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• sound analysis
• sound processing
• music information retrieval
• audio analysis
• audio recognition
• music technology
• computational music cognition