Over the last decade voice technologies for telephony and embedded solutions became much more mature, resulting in applications providing mobile access to digital information from anywhere. Both a growing demand for voice driven applications in many languages and the need for improved usability and user experience now drives the exploration of multi-lingual speech processing techniques for reco...

This paper describes our experiments to overcome the problem of inputting unknown words in a voice-only application by spelling. As the paper demonstrates, this is achieved by postprocessing the speech recognition result to attempt to recover from possible recognition errors that occurred during the spelling phase. Since the post-processing does not involve any additional user input, it not onl...

On speech signal processing, it is very important to find the fundamental frequency of voice. The reason is why it is used in variable places, such as speech-enhancement-system, speech-recognition system, speakerclassification-system, and handicapped assisting-system. However the pitch detection is difficult when the original signal is corrupted by noise, or put in transition section of voice. ...

This paper describes the characteristics and structure of a Basque singing voice database of bertsolaritza. Bertsolaritza is a popular singing style from Basque Country sung exclusively in Basque that is improvised and a capella. The database is designed to be used in statistical singing voice synthesis for bertsolaritza style. Starting from the recordings and transcriptions of numerous singers...

The analysis of pathological voice is a challenging and an important area of research in speech processing. Acoustic voice analysis can be used to characterize the pathological voices with the aid of the speech signals recorded from the patients. This paper presents a method for the identification and classification of pathological voice using Artificial Neural Network. Multilayer Perceptron Ne...

The decoding of the voice audio bit stream is an issue in terms of real-time transmission of high quality voice audio over the Internet. A stand-alone chip to perform decoding is a better solution over software approach. The MPEG audio compression provides high compression with minimal loss. This study describes a VHDL model of MPEG audio layer 1 decoder that perform concurrent processing while...

We present a Mexican Spanish voice user interface demonstration system. It was built on a speech research platform developed at Bell Labs, which provides major speech technology and interface components, including automatic speech recognition, text-to-speech synthesis, audio input/output functions and telephone interface. The application is written in the PERL script language with an embedded V...

On speech signal processing, it is very important to find the fundamental frequency of voice. The reason is why it is used in variable places, such as speech-enhancement-system, speech-recognition system, speaker-classification-system, and handicapped assisting-system. However the pitch detection is difficult when the original signal is corrupted by noise, or put in transition section of voice....

To enhance the identification capacity of the skin-hearing aid for voice signals, the four-channel skin-hearing aid based on Morse encoding method is proposed in this article, which can overcome many disadvantages such as low identification rate and bad anti-jamming capability existing in analog variable pressure skin-hearing aid. By processing voices, seeking the corresponding Morse code of vo...

in recent decades, research on the processing of grammatical structures in different languages has played a crucial role in psychological and linguistic studies. the present research aims to examine the extent to which arabic- and chinese-speaking learners apply passive voice and aspect in complement clauses in their pieces of writing. to that end, syntactic and pragmatic criteria of applying a...