introduction: bnign laryngeal lesions are relatively commonly occurring problems which are often noted after changes in voice. since they are non-invasive and yield objective easy-to-collect data, acoustic laboratory methods are used along with perceptual assessments for evaluation of voice. studying acoustic characteristics is useful in diagnosis and treatment of voice disorders.  with regard ...

Acquiring proficiency in academic genres is a key factor in research community. Among various genres in academic discourse communities, spoken genre, especially Conference Presentations (CPs), play a crucial role in research communities, though investigation on this important genre is in its infancy or is relatively under-researched. Therefore, the present study aims to shed light on the import...

This paper presents the concept of a voice profile as a complete description of the distributions of the acoustic correlates and the speaking characteristics of a speaker. A voice profile can be considered as a unified speakerdependent probability model of speech with applications in speaker identification, adaptive speech recognition, voice morphing and text to speech synthesis. The spectral a...

BACKGROUND As a professional voice user, it is imperative that a speech-language pathologist's(SLP) vocal effectiveness remain consistent throughout the day. Many factors may contribute to reduced vocal effectiveness, including prolonged voice use, vocally abusive behaviours,poor vocal hygiene and environmental factors. OBJECTIVES To determine the effect of service delivery on the perceptual ...

This paper gives a brief overview of security using Biometrics Parameters. Security is one of the utmost requirements of homes and businesses which require multimodal biometric identification. This paper aims to identify a person through Voice and face recognition. The ARM based voice recognition module is used for voice recognition. Also some other techniques available for voice recognition ar...

A spectro-temporal modulation based singing voice detection cascaded with a Viterbi based pitch tracking algorithm is proposed in this paper for singing-voice separation from monaural recordings. To detect the singing voice, the spectrotemporal modulation energy related to voice harmonics is extracted using a spectro-temporal modulation analysis framework developed for the Fourier spectrogram. ...

Cellular Wireless Wide Area Networks (WWANs) are most prevalent and offer highbandwidth data transfer. We believe WWANs can be availed for voice communications employing Voice Over IP technologies. Such a communication will be of better quality and offer higher resilience compared to voice communication over a cellular phone (using cellular voice networks). We present a Quality of Service analy...

Modeling natural sounding voice qualities – for example the pressed-modalbreathy voice quality continuum which widely occurs during normal speech production – is a crucial point in speech synthesis. A parametric voice source model using prescribed sinusoidal vocal fold vibration patterns (i.e. extended Titze model) is introduced in this paper. This voice source model was adapted for synthesis o...

Introduction: Rhinosinus polyposis is associated with voice quality reduction. There has been little evidence about the efficacy of rhinosinus polyps surgery on patients' voice quality so far. The aim of the present study was to evaluate the nasality and acoustic voice changes after rhinosinus polyposis surgery.   Materials and Methods: The population in this study compo...

This research empirically examines the relationship between trust and voice, proactive personality and voice, and whether proactive personality moderates the relationship between trust and voice. A total of 105 employees were surveyed using a 14 item instrument to assess the subjects’ responses to the factors under investigation, as well as demographic characteristics. Based on regression analy...