The Cistercian order is of acoustic interest because previous research has hypothesized that architectural structures were designed for longer reverberation times in to reinforce Gregorian chants. presented study focused on an archaeoacacoustics analysis the Beaulieu Abbey (Hampshire, England, UK), using Geometrical Acoustics (GA) recreate and investigate acoustical properties original structur...

The relationship between the displacements, velocities, and accelerations of the articulators and speech rate is investigated experimentally. Especially, we address the question as to whether it is possible to predict the speech rate from articulatory kinematics by means of a linear regression model. Two different kinds of corpora have been recorded. The first consists of only two short sentenc...

1 Secção Autónoma de Ciências da Saúde, Universidade de Aveiro and Direcção Regional da Educação do Norte, Ministério da Educação, Portugal [email protected] [email protected] 2 Escola Superior de Saúde da Universidade de Aveiro and Instituto de Engenharia Electrónica e Telemática de Aveiro, Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal [email protected] 3 Hospital Senhora da Oliveira, Guimarães, Por...

The Center for Integrated Acoustic Information Research (CIAIR) at Nagoya University has been collecting various kinds of speech corpora for both of acoustic modeling and speech modeling. The corpora include multi-media data collection in moving-car environment, collection of children's voice while video gaming, room acoustics at multiple points, head related transfer functions of multiple subj...

The paper introduces the Estonian Phonetic Database developed at the Laboratory of Phonetics and Speech Technology of the Institute of Cybernetics at the Tallinn Technical University, and its integration into QuickSig – an object-oriented speech processing environment developed at the Acoustics Laboratory of the Helsinki University of Technology. Methods of database access are discussed, relati...

This paper describes the acquisition of a new database of dysarthric speech in terms of aligned acoustics and articulatory data. This database currently includes data from seven individuals with speech impediments caused by cerebral palsy or amyotrophic lateral sclerosis and ageand gender-matched control subjects. Each of the individuals with speech impediments are given standardized assessment...

Numerous examinations are performed related to automatic emotion recognition and speech detection in the Laboratory of Speech Acoustics. This article reviews results achieved for automatic emotion recognition experiments on spontaneous speech databases on the base of the acoustical information only. Different acoustic parameters were compared for the acoustical preprocessing, and Support Vector...

Being affected by mental stress during conversations might have a direct or indirect effect on our speech acoustics as well as on our physiological responses. This paper presents a study on finding the relationship between these two modalities, speech acoustics and physiology, during stressful conversations between humans. Heart rate and respiratory sinus arrhythmia have been considered as phys...

Centralization of vowel formants has been associated with reduced intelligibility in healthy speakers and those with motor speech disorders [1-3]. Hence, estimations of speakers’ vowel space area (VSA) provide a promising avenue for assessing speech motor control. However, VSA measurements have traditionally demonstrated limited success in distinguishing healthy and disordered speech [1, 3]. On...

Speaker recognition is more active biometric task, which bases from the more general speech processing area. Likewise, most of the other speech-related recognition activities (language recognition, speech recognition), speaker recognition is a multidisciplinary problem. Both understanding of pattern recognition techniques and domain knowledge (Acoustics/Phonetics) are necessary. The motivation ...