In this paper, a speech enhancement algorithm is proposed to improve the speech intelligibility for cochlear implant recipients. Our method is based on combination of harmonic estimation and traditional statistical method. Traditional statistical based speech enhancement method is effective only for stationary noise suppression, but not non-stationary noise. To address more complex noise scenar...

traditional raw milk cheese is one of the most consuming cheeses in the world. kurdish cheese is a semi-firm, traditionally made in the east of iran. it is manufactured from raw sheep or cow milk and kept in goat’s skin bags during ripening period. as a result kurdish cheese is often more complex in different varieties of microorganisms, which whose organoleptic properties make it highly esteem...

We evaluated two speech research paradigms by comparing standardized sentences to ‘free speech’ (both produced by students without interaction partner). Samples of infant(IDS), foreigner(FDS) and adult-directed speech (ADS) were acoustically analyzed for F0 and hyperarticulation. No difference for hyperarticulation was found between IDS, FDS and ADS, which is in contrast to natural speech and i...

This work reviews the advancements in the non-conventional analysis of speech signals, particularly from an AM-FM analysis point of view. The benefits of such an analysis, as opposed to the traditional short-time analysis of speech, is illustrated in this work. The inherent non-linearity of the speech production system is discussed. The limitations of Fourier analysis, Linear Prediction (LP) an...

† The entirety of the work presented in this paper was conducted while the first author was affiliated with the Computer Science and Engineering department, DUB Group, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, 98195, USA. Abstract. We conducted a quantitative experiment to determine the performance characteristics of non-speech vocalization for discrete input generation in comparison to ex...

A divide and conquer strategy for enhancement of noisy speeches in adverse environments involving lower levels of SNR is presented in this paper, where the total system of speech enhancement is divided into two separate steps. The first step is based on noise compensation on short time magnitude and the second step is based on phase compensation. The magnitude spectrum is compensated based on a...

Different speech detection sensors have been developed over the years but they are limited by the loss of high frequency speech energy, and have restricted non-contact detection due to the lack of penetrability. This paper proposes a novel millimeter microwave radar sensor to detect speech signals. The utilization of a high operating frequency and a superheterodyne receiver contributes to the h...

nowadays novel has a dominant role in literature owing to its special capability to demonstrate the social dilemmas and stories. the main factor which makes a novel attractive is proportionality and symmetry of dialogue with characters and the story. in the case of narratology of a story, an alerted analyzer illustrates premier features of the story with employing narrative mechanisms and story...