Voice Evaluation

Voice Stress Analyzer Instrumentation Evaluation

Universidade de aveiro's voice evaluation protocol

This paper presents Universidade de Aveiro’s Voice Evaluation Protocol for European Portuguese (EP), and a preliminary inter-rater reliability study. Ten patients with vocal pathology were assessed, by two Speech and Language Therapists (SLTs). Protocol parameters such as overall severity, roughness, breathiness, change of loudness (CAPEV), grade, breathiness and strain (GRBAS), glottal attack,...

Evaluation of voice quality after supraglottic laryngectomy.

OBJECTIVE Supraglottic laryngectomy is a surgical procedure that preserves laryngeal functions. This technique allows extensions including removal of tongue base or 1 arytenoid. We aimed to compare vocal results of supraglottic laryngectomy and extended procedures. STUDY DESIGN Cross-sectional study. SETTING Tertiary care hospital. SUBJECTS AND METHODS Thirty-three males who underwent sup...

Performance Evaluation for Voice Conversion Systems

In the present work, we introduce a new performance evaluation measure for assessing the capacity of voice conversion systems to modify the speech of one speaker (source) so that it sounds as if it was uttered by another speaker (target). This measure relies on a GMM-UBM-based likelihood estimator that estimates the degree of proximity between an utterance of the converted voice and the predefi...

Perceptual evaluation of voice source modelsa)

Jody Kreiman, Marc Garellek, Gang Chen, Abeer Alwan, and Bruce R. Gerratt Department of Head and Neck Surgery, University of California–Los Angeles School of Medicine, 31-24 Rehabilitation Center, Los Angeles, California 90095-1794, USA Department of Linguistics, University of California–San Diego, 9500 Gilman Drive #0108, La Jolla, California 92093-0108, USA Department of Electrical Engineerin...