This study investigated acoustic-phonetic correlates of intelligibility for adult and child talkers, and whether the relative intelligibility of different talkers was dependent on listener characteristics. In experiment 1, word intelligibility was measured for 45 talkers (18 women, 15 men, 6 boys, 6 girls) from a homogeneous accent group. The material consisted of 124 words familiar to 7-year-o...

INTRODUCTION Hyperkinetic (hyperfunctional) dysphonia is a common pathology. The disorder is often found in vocal professionals faced with high vocal requirements. OBJECTIVE The objective of this study was to evaluate the effects of vocal therapy on voice condition characterized by hyperkinetic dysphonia with prenodular lesions and soft nodules. METHODS The study included 100 adult patients...

Whistler Text-to-Speech engine was designed so that we can automatically construct the model parameters from training data. This paper will focus on recent improvements on prosody and acoustic modeling, which are all derived through the use of probabilistic learning methods. Whistler can produce synthetic speech that sounds very natural and resembles the acoustic and prosodic characteristics of...

OBJECTIVES The aim of the study is to determine the accuracy of acoustic spectrography as an outstanding tool in the characterization and monitoring of esophageal voice. MATERIAL AND METHODS Our subjects were comprised of 33 laryngectomized patients (all male) that underwent qualitative acoustic (spectrography of vowel /a/ and a sentence), quantitative acoustic (phonation time, fundamental fr...

An important challenge for text-to-speech is to get a synthesized voice that sounds as like as possible to the human voice. The voice synthesized by these systems sounds artificial and this is the most principal cause of rejection by the public at the moment. In order to obtain a lively synthesized voice it is necessary to generate a voice with emotions. The main goal of the generation of emoti...

This paper presents a system for controlling audio mosaicing with a voice signal, which can be interpreted as a further step in voice-driven sound synthesis. Compared to voice-driven instrumental synthesis, it increases the variety in the synthesized timbre. Also, it provides a more direct interface for audio mosaicing applications, where the performer voice controls rhythmic, tonal and timbre ...

Jody Kreiman Bruce R. Gerratt Kristin Precoda Gerald S. Berke VA Medical Center, WVest Los Angeles and Division of Head and Neck Surgery UL(LA School of Medicine Sixteen listeners (10 expert, 6 naive) judged the dissimilarity of pairs of voices drawn from pathological and normal populations. Separate nonmetric multidimensional scaling solutions were calculated for each listener and voice set. T...

Ambulatory monitoring of real-world voice characteristics and behavior has the potential to provide important assessment of voice and speech disorders and psychological and emotional state. In this paper, we report on the novel development of a lightweight, wireless voice monitor that synchronously records dual-channel data from an acoustic microphone and a necksurface accelerometer embedded on...