SPEECH
2010
13 years 6 months ago
2010
The possibility of speech processing in the absence of an intelligible acoustic signal has given rise to the idea of a `silent speech' interface, to be used as an aid for the...
SPEECH
2010
13 years 6 months ago
2010
One of the main problems in developing a text-to-speech (TTS) synthesizer for French lies in grapheme-to-phoneme conversion. Automatic converters produce still too many errors in ...
SPEECH
2010
13 years 10 months ago
2010
This study investigates speech comprehension in competing multi-talker babble. We examined the effects of number of simultaneous talkers and of frequency of words in the babble on...
SPEECH
2010
13 years 10 months ago
2010
SPEECH
2010
13 years 10 months ago
2010
SPEECH
2010
13 years 10 months ago
2010
One key aspect of face-to-face communication concerns the differences that may exist between speakers’ native regional accents. This paper focuses on the characterization of re...
SPEECH
2010
13 years 10 months ago
2010
We have applied two state-of-the-art speech synthesis techniques (unit selection and HMM-based synthesis) to the synthesis of emotional speech. A series of carefully designed perc...
SPEECH
2010
13 years 10 months ago
2010
SPEECH
2010
13 years 10 months ago
2010
In this paper we investigate the modulation domain as an alternative to the acoustic domain for speech enhancement. More specifically, we wish to determine how competitive the mo...
SPEECH
2010
13 years 10 months ago
2010
Missing data methods attempt to improve robust speech recognition by distinguishing between reliable and unreliable data in the time-frequency domain. Such methods require a binar...