JANUARY 2016 VOLUME 24 NUMBER 1 ITASFA (ISSN 2329-9290) REGULAR PAPERS HMM-Based Speech Segmentation: Improvements of Fully Automatic Approaches http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/TASLP.2015.2456421 ........ .. .. ........ ......... ......... ........ ......... ......... ........ ......... ......... ........ ......... ... S. Brognaux and T. Drugman Towards a Small Set of Robust Acoustic Features for Emotion Recognition: Challenges http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/TASLP.2015.2487051 ... .. .. ........ ......... ......... ........ ......... ......... ........ ......... ......... ........ ......... ...... M. Tahon and L. Devillers i-Vector Modeling of Speech Attributes for Automatic Foreign Accent Recognition http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/TASLP.2015.2489558 ........ .. .. ........ ......... ......... ........ ......... ... H. Behravan, V. Hautamäki, S. M. Siniscalchi, T. Kinnunen, and C.-H. Lee Feature Extraction Using Power-Law Adjusted Linear Prediction With Application to Speaker Recognition Under Severe Vocal Effort Mismatch http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/TASLP.2015.2493366 .... ......... ......... ........ .... R. Saeidi, P. Alku, and T. Bäckström www.signalprocessingsociety.org [8] FEBRUARY 2016 5 16 29 42http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/TASLP.2015.2456421 http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/TASLP.2015.2487051 http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/TASLP.2015.2489558 http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/TASLP.2015.2493366 http://www.signalprocessingsociety.org