An approach for a program is presented that automatically detects the position of pitch accents and intonation phrase (IP) boundaries from waveforms. The technique maps acoustic c...
Led by the fundamental role that rhythms apparently play in speech and gestural communication among humans, this study was undertaken to substantiate a biologically motivated model...
Speech privacy techniques are used to scramble clear speech into an unintelligible signal in order to avoid eavesdropping. Some analog speech-privacy equipments (scramblers) have ...
Jose Francisco de Andrade, Marcello Luiz Rodrigues...
Although gesture recognition has been studied extensively, communicative, affective, and biometrical “utility” of natural gesticulation remains relatively unexplored. One of t...
HMM based synthesis has attracted great interest due to its compact and flexible modelling of spectral and prosodic parameters. In this approach, short term spectra, fundamental ...
Kai Yu, Tomoki Toda, Milica Gasic, Simon Keizer, F...