Speech Dynamics
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چکیده
This keynote presentation is about the various dynamic aspects of speech (energy envelope, spectral variation, voicing and pitch variation, speaking style and pronunciation variation, and influence of communication channel). The related speech signal characteristics are measured and modeled and are tested in listening experiments. Consequences for speech recognition and speech synthesis are discussed. The Modulation Transfer Function can be used as a global measure for speech intelligibility and leads to interesting applications such as feedback in speech training. We wonder how TE-speakers and CI-users can handle speech dynamics properly.
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