Speech synthesis technologies for individuals with vocal disabilities: Voice banking and reconstruction

Speech synthesis technologies for individuals with vocal disabilities: Voice banking and reconstruction

In this invited paper, we overview the clinical applications of speech synthesis technologies and explain a few selected researches. We also introduce the University of Edinburgh’s new project ‘‘Voice Banking and reconstruction’’ for patients with degenerative diseases, such as motor neurone disease and Parkinson’s disease and show how speech synthesis technologies can improve the quality of li...

Voice banking and reconstruction 解説 — Speech synthesis technologies for individuals with vocal disabilities —

Towards Personalised Synthesised Voices for Individuals with Vocal Disabilities: Voice Banking and Reconstruction

When individuals lose the ability to produce their own speech, due to degenerative diseases such as motor neurone disease (MND) or Parkinson’s, they lose not only a functional means of communication but also a display of their individual and group identity. In order to build personalized synthetic voices, attempts have been made to capture the voice before it is lost, using a process known as v...

Deep neural network based trainable voice source model for synthesis of speech with varying vocal effort

This paper studies a deep neural network (DNN) based voice source modelling method in the synthesis of speech with varying vocal effort. The new trainable voice source model learns a mapping between the acoustic features and the time-domain pitch-synchronous glottal flow waveform using a DNN. The voice source model is trained with various speech material from breathy, normal, and Lombard speech...

Using HMM-based Speech Synthesis to Reconstruct the Voice of Individuals with Degenerative Speech Disorders

When individuals lose the ability to produce their own speech, due to degenerative diseases such as motor neuron disease (MND) or Parkinson’s, they lose not only a functional means of communication but also a display of their individual and group identity. In order to build personalized synthetic voices, attempts have been made to capture the voice before it is lost, using a process known as vo...