In this paper an estimator for speech enhancement based on Laplacian Mixture Model has been proposed. The proposed method, estimates the complex DFT coefficients of clean speech from noisy speech using the MMSE  estimator, when the clean speech DFT coefficients are supposed mixture of Laplacians and the DFT coefficients of  noise are assumed zero-mean Gaussian distribution. Furthermore, the MMS...

Detecting emotions in a conversational context benefits several industrial cases such as customer service, user appraisal from speech recognition, and so on. However, most cases, research data differ real due to them being private, confidential, or difficult label. In this work we present ProtoSeq, an adaptation of the Prototypical Networks enable dealing with sequences few-shot learning way, r...

C-ORAL-BRASIL I is a Brazilian Portuguese spontaneous speech corpus compiled following the same architecture adopted by the C-ORAL-ROM resource. The main goal is the documentation of the diaphasic and diastratic variations in Brazilian Portuguese. The diatopic variety represented is that of the metropolitan area of Belo Horizonte, capital city of Minas Gerais. Even though it was not a primary g...

hypernasality is a frequently occurring resonance disorder in children with cleft palate. generally an operation is necessary to reduce the hypernasality and therefore an assessment of hypernasality is imperative to quantify the effect of the surgery and design the speech therapy sessions which are crucial after surgery. in this paper, a new quantitative method is proposed to estimate hypernasa...

introduction: speech intelligibility, the ability to be understood verbally by listeners, is the gold standard for assessing the effectiveness of cochlear implantation. thus, the goal of this study was to compare the speech intelligibility between normal-hearing and cochlear-implanted children using the persian intelligibility test.   materials and methods: twenty-six cochlear-implanted childre...

The C-ORAL-ROM project has delivered a multilingual corpus of spontaneous speech for the main romance languages (Italian, French, Portuguese and Spanish). The collection aims to represent the variety of speech acts performed in everyday language and to enable the description of prosodic and syntactic structures in the four romance languages. Sampling criteria are defined in a corpus design sche...

Despite the importance of effective pain communication, talking about pain represents a challenge for patients and clinicians because pain is a private and subjective experience. This article considers the limitations of current methods of obtaining information about the sensory characteristics of pain and argues that spontaneously produced ‘co-speech hand gestures’ may constitute an important ...

the aim of this paper is to report on an attempt to design and implement an intelligent system capable of generating the correct part of speech for a given sentence while the sentence is totally new to the system and not stored in any database available to the system. it follows the same steps a normal individual does to provide the correct parts of speech using a natural language processor. it...

OBJECTIVES There is currently no agreed Australian standard for the diagnosis of autism spectrum disorder (ASD) even though there are specific diagnostic services available. We suspected inconsistency in the diagnostic practices of health professionals in Australia and aimed to assess these practices across the nation by surveying all relevant professional groups. DESIGN In this study, we com...

A reliable speech enhancement method is important for speech applications as a pre-processing step to improve their overall performance. In this paper, we propose a novel frequency domain method for single channel speech enhancement. Conventional frequency domain methods usually neglect the correlation between neighboring time-frequency components of the signals. In the proposed method, we take...