A Study of Acoustic Correlates of Speaker Age -- The Impact of Visual and Auditory Cues in Age Estimation -- Development of a Femininity Estimator for Voice Therapy of Gender Identity Disorder Clients -- Real-Life Emotion Recognition in Speech -- Automatic Classification of Expressiveness in Speech: A Multi-corpus Study -- Acoustic Impact on Decoding of Semantic Emotion -- Emotion from Speakers to Listeners: Perception and Prosodic Characterization of Affective Speech -- Effects of the Phonological Contents on Perceptual Speaker Identification -- Durations of Context-Dependent Phonemes: A New Feature in Speaker Verification -- Language–Independent Speaker Classification over a Far–Field Microphone -- A Linear-Scaling Approach to Speaker Variability in Poly-segmental Formant Ensembles -- Sound Change and Speaker Identity: An Acoustic Study -- Bayes-Optimal Estimation of GMM Parameters for Speaker Recognition -- Speaker Individualities in Speech Spectral Envelopes and Fundamental Frequency Contours -- Speaker Segmentation for Air Traffic Control -- Detection of Speaker Characteristics Using Voice Imitation -- Reviewing Human Language Identification -- Underpinning /nailon/: Automatic Estimation of Pitch Range and Speaker Relative Pitch -- Automatic Dialect Identification: A Study of British English -- ACCDIST: An Accent Similarity Metric for Accent Recognition and Diagnosis -- Selecting Representative Speakers for a Speech Database on the Basis of Heterogeneous Similarity Criteria -- Speaker Classification by Means of Orthographic and Broad Phonetic Transcriptions of Speech.