Despite the potential benefits of digital note taking tools, research has found that people continue to use paper for creating micronotes, informal personal notes such as reminders and to-dos. Design recommendations from formative studies suggest that “natural” input modalities such as voice and digital ink could help to overcome the drawbacks of text entry on phones and PDAs. We conducted an 1...

This study reports an attempt to predict the voice of reference using the information from the input sentences or previous input/output sentences. Our previous study presented a voice controlling method to generate sentences for neural machine translation, wherein it was demonstrated that the BLEU score improved when the voice of generated sentence was controlled relative to that of the referen...

This paper describes a novel approach based on voice conversion (VC) to speaker-adaptive speech synthesis for speech-tospeech translation. Voice quality of translated speech in an output language is usually different from that of an input speaker of the translation system since a text-to-speech system is developed with another speaker’s voices in the output language. To render the input speaker...

OBJECTIVES To verify the initial results of a new anterograde replacement method of the second-generation indwelling Provox voice prosthesis, Provox 2 (Atos Medical AB, Hörby, Sweden), and to determine its device life. DESIGN Nonrandomized, multi-institutional, controlled clinical trial. SETTING Four academic hospitals and/or comprehensive cancer centers in The Netherlands. PATIENTS Two h...

UNLABELLED Hyperfunctional dysphonia is the most frequent type of occupational functional dysphonia. Pharmacotherapy, physiotherapy and psychotherapy are used in the treatment of occupational dysphonia. Vibratory massages of the regions of the larynx relax the external muscles of neck, which have an indirect impact on the tension of the vocal folds. PURPOSE The aim of the study is to assess t...

In this paper an overview of problems and prospects of voice input/output to a computer are discussed. Current attempts to provide speech input/output facilities to a computer are described. The scope of speech recognition problem is defined. Issues involved in the design of text-to-speech and speech-to-text systems are discussed. Since any sophisticated voice input/output system uses several l...

The personal computers are often equipped with a sound card that is capable of audio processing. This enables GUI applications to use sounds and synthesized speech, such as warning messages, voice alerts and guides to the user. Most sound cards also take input from a microphone, which are often used to pickup user voice and digitize them through audio processing circuitry. Voice recognition sys...

This working paper depicts the usage of Natural Language Processing techniques in the production of voice from an input text, a.k.a. Text-To-Speech synthesis, and the inverse process, which is the production of a written text transcription from an input voice utterance, a.k.a. Automatic Speech Recognition.

The electroglottography method is an instrumental analysis by the device called Laryngograph, which can be practically applied in the speech signal analysis for people with voice disorders issues. In this paper capabilities of this device are estimated. A very interesting fact is that visualization of the speech signal obtained with the use of Laryngograph device allows to detect the acoustical...

Carbon nanostructures are famous structures which are used in several industries such as separation, treatment, energy storage (i.e. methane and hydrogen storage), etc. A successful modeling of activated carbon preparation is very important in saving time and money. There are some attempts to achieve the appropriate theoretical modeling of activated carbon preparation but most of them were almo...