Speech is the most natural communication mean for humans. However, in situations where audio speech is not available or cannot be perceived because of disabilities or adverse environmental conditions, people may resort to alternative methods such as augmented speech. Augmented speech is audio speech supplemented or replaced by other modalities, such as audiovisual speech, or Cued Speech. Cued S...

The paper provides an overview of the research conducted at LIMSI in the field of speech processing, but also in the related areas of Human-Machine Communication, including Natural Language Processing, Non Verbal and Multimodal Communication. Also presented are the commercial applications of some of the research projects. When applicable, the discussion is placed in the framework of internation...

OBJECTIVE To assess associations between cognitive status, intelligibility, acoustics and functional communication in PD. DESIGN Cross-sectional exploratory study of functional communication, including a within-participants experimental design for listener assessment. SETTING A major academic medical centre in the East of England, UK. PARTICIPANTS Questionnaire data were assessed for 45 p...

Speech is the most natural way of communication among humans. This mode of communication is constituted of two parts, namely sound and sense. The intelligent production and synthesis of speech has intrigued man himself for long and efforts at automated speech recognition, has gone through various phases. Hidden Markov Models (HMMs) provide a simple and effective framework for modeling time-vary...