In this paper, we evaluate our previously proposed speakingaid system with voice conversion for laryngectomees. The proposed system employs a sound source unit generating extremely small signals to keep them from annoying other persons, and then it statistically converts articulated signals captured with a body-attached microphone into natural speech. We have so far shown the effectiveness of t...

CUEX is an algorithm that from recordings of solo music performances extracts the tone parameters for tempo, sound level, articulation, onset velocity, spectrum, vibrato rate, and vibrato extent. The aim is to capture the expressive variations in a music performance, rather than to identify the musical notes played. The CUEX algorithm uses a combination of traditional methods to segment the aud...

A speech assistant system has been developed at the University of Miskolc in cooperation with the University of Debrecen granted by the European Union. The project aims to help training of deaf and hearing impaired people to speak. The idea of the project has come from a three-dimensional head model for articulation presentation, called “talking head” developed by the University of Miskolc, and...

For the speech ability assessment of glossectomee patients, dynamic MRT was used in order to obtain real time imaging of articulatory movements. At the present state, the method is best suited for continuous consonants, but it can be used for the evaluation of any speech sound. In this study, preand postoperative consonant articulation of eight patients with cancer of the oral cavity is compere...

Twenty children with mental retardation (MR), age 7-12, completed a phonological reading skills program over approximately 10 weeks. As a result of the instruction, they were better able to sound out learned and transfer words compared to a control group matched on age, IQ, nonword reading, language comprehension, and phonemic awareness. Final sounding out was predicted by beginning reading ski...

In this research Arabic speech sounds have been studied and investigated, so as to find the distinctive features of each articulated sound. Therefore, certain sound which share approximate significant chosen for study ability distinguishing among them through abstracting characteristic them. The signals recorded microphone represented in a binary matrix. This procedure was implemented prepare t...

Phonology is the study of sound patterns of the world’s languages. In all spoken languages, we find sound patterns characterizing the composition of words and phrases. These patterns include overall properties of contrastive sound inventories (e.g. vowel inventories, consonant inventories, tone inventories), as well as patterns determining the distribution of sounds or contrastive features of s...

UNLABELLED Researchers, as well as the lay public and the popular press, have become increasingly concerned about the lack of reproducibility of research findings. Despite this concern, research has shown that replications of previously published work comprise a very small proportion of published studies. Moreover, there are fewer published direct replications of research studies by independent...

background: the intensity and duration of speech diffi culty inherently associated with lingual therapy is a signifi cant issue of concern in orthodontics. this study was designed to evaluate and to compare the duration of changes in speech between labial and lingual orthodontics. materials and methods: a prospective longitudinal clinical study was designed to assess speech of 24 patients under...

The human speech production system is composed of the lungs, trachea, larynx, nasal cavity and oral cavity as shown in Fig. 1. Speech is simply a sound wave originating from the lungs. Air coming out of the lungs first passes through the trachea and then through the vocal tract. The shape of the vocal tract determines the speech sound produced. The position of the lips, tongue, velum, teeth and...