“…Today, this area became a substantial branch of signal processing research [2,3]. In speech signal processing for example, there have been a variety of contributions successfully employing Bayesian techniques and probabilistic graphical models [4][5][6][7][8][9], neural networks [10,11] and deep learning [12], kernel methods [13,14], and sparsity-based techniques [15,16], to name just a few.…”