Speaking Up and Speaking Out: Collective Voice in Women’s Sports Media

Speaking up in groups: a cross-level study of group voice climate and voice.

Despite a growing body of research on employee voice—defined as the discretionary communication of ideas, suggestions, or opinions intended to improve organizational or unit functioning—the effects of shared or collective-level cognitions have received scant attention. There has also been relatively little research on voice within work groups. Our goal in this study was to address these importa...

Modeling speaking rate for voice fonts

Voice fonts are created and stored for a speaker, to be used to synthesize speech in the speaker’s voice. The most important descriptors of voice fonts are spectral envelope for acoustic units and prosodic features such as fundamental frequency and average speaking rate. In this paper, we present a new approach to model the speaking rate so that it can be easily incorporated in voice fonts and ...

Speaking faces for face-voice spe

In this paper, we describe an approach for an animated speaking face synthesis and its application in modeling impostor/replay attack scenarios for face-voice based speaker verification systems. The speaking face reported here learns the spatiotemporal relationship between speech acoustics and MPEG4 compliant facial animation points. The influence of articulatory, perceptual, and prosodic acous...

Vocal conversion from speaking voice to singing voice using STRAIGHT

A vocal conversion system that can synthesize a singing voice given a speaking voice and a musical score is proposed. It is based on the speech manipulation system STRAIGHT [1], and comprises three models controlling three acoustic features unique to singing voices: the F0, duration, and spectral envelope. Given the musical score and its tempo, the F0 control model generates the F0 contour of t...

Mental handicapped nursing. Sexual abuse. Speaking out.