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Synthetic speech detection using phase information
(Elsevier B.V., 2016-04-16)
Taking advantage of the fact that most of the speech processing techniques neglect the phase information, we seek to detect phase perturbations in order to prevent synthetic impostors attacking Speaker Verification systems. ...
A Spanish multispeaker database of esophageal speech
(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 ...
Application of Pitch Derived Parameters to Speech and Monophonic Singing Classification
(MDPI, 2019-08-01)
Speech and singing voice discrimination is an important task in the speech processing area given that each type of voice requires different information retrieval and signal processing techniques. This discrimination task ...
LSTM based voice conversion for laryngectomees
(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 ...
The observation likelihood of silence: analysis and prospects for VAD applications
(International Speech Communication Association, 2018-11-23)
This paper shows a research on the behaviour of the observa-tion likelihoods generated by the central state of asilenceHMM(Hidden Markov Model) trained for Automatic Speech Recog-nition (ASR) using cepstral mean and variance ...
Intelligibility and Listening Effort of Spanish Oesophageal Speech
(MDPI, 2019-08)
Communication is a huge challenge for oesophageal speakers, be it for interactions with fellow humans or with digital voice assistants. We aim to quantify these communication challenges (both human-human and human-machine ...
Listening to Laryngectomees: A study of Intelligibility and Self-reportedListening Effort of Spanish Oesophageal Speech
(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 ...
RESTORE Project: REpair, STOrage and REhabilitation of speech
(International Speech Communication Association, 2018-11-23)
RESTORE is a project aimed to improve the quality of commu-nication for people with difficulties producing speech, provid-ing them with tools and alternative communication services. Atthe same time, progress will be made ...
An on-line VAD based on Multi-Normalisation Scoring (MNS) of observation likelihoods
(Elsevier Ltd., 2018-05-31)
Voice activity detection (VAD) is an essential task in expert systems that rely on oral interfaces. The VAD module detects the presence of human speech and separates speech segments from silences and non-speech noises. The ...