Browsing OpenAire by Author "Raman, Sneha"
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A Spanish multispeaker database of esophageal speech
Serrano García, Luis; Raman, Sneha; Hernáez Rioja, Inmaculada ; Navas Cordón, Eva ; Sánchez de la Fuente, Jon ; Saratxaga Couceiro, Ibon (Elsevier, 2020-11-05)A laryngectomee is a person whose larynx has been removed by surgery, usually due to laryngeal cancer. After surgery, most laryngectomees are able to speak again, using techniques that are learned with the help of a speech ... -
Enrichment of Oesophageal Speech: Voice Conversion with Duration-Matched Synthetic Speech as Target
Raman, Sneha; Sarasola Aramendia, Xabier; Navas Cordón, Eva ; Hernáez Rioja, Inmaculada (MDPI, 2021-06-26)Pathological speech such as Oesophageal Speech (OS) is difficult to understand due to the presence of undesired artefacts and lack of normal healthy speech characteristics. Modern speech technologies and machine learning ... -
Listening to Laryngectomees: A study of Intelligibility and Self-reportedListening Effort of Spanish Oesophageal Speech
Raman, Sneha; Hernáez Rioja, Inmaculada ; Navas Cordón, Eva ; Serrano García, Luis (International Speech Communication Association, 2018-11-23)Oesophageal speakers face a multitude of challenges, such asdifficulty in basic everyday communication and inability to in-teract with digital voice assistants. We aim to quantify the diffi-culty involved in understanding ... -
LSTM based voice conversion for laryngectomees
Serrano García, Luis; Tavarez Arriba, David; Sarasola, Xabier; Raman, Sneha; Saratxaga Couceiro, Ibon ; Navas Cordón, Eva ; Hernáez Rioja, Inmaculada (International Speech Communication Association, 2018-11-23)This paper describes a voice conversion system designed withthe aim of improving the intelligibility and pleasantness of oe-sophageal voices. Two different systems have been built, oneto transform the spectral magnitude ...