Elmar Nöth is a Professor for Applied Computer Science at the Friedrich-Alexander-
University Erlangen-Nuremberg (FAU) in Germany. He has worked at the Pattern
Recognition Lab of the FAU and is the head of the lab’s speech group. He is author or co-
author of more than 500 articles. His current interests are prosody, analysis of pathologic
speech, computer aided language learning, emotion analysis, and the analysis of animal
communication.