This thesis introduces a new method for synthesizing multiple languages with the voice of any speaker, so that for example Japanese speech can be synthesized with the voice of a Russian monolingual speaker. This approach is based on the hypothesis that the average voice created by mixing a sufficient number of speakers is the same for all languages, i.e., the average voice is equivalent to a po...

The speech of the Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) system is degraded by network layer problems which include delay, packet loss and jitter. The implementation of signal through digital signal processor can improve the quality of degraded VoIP signal. The work in this paper presents the comparison of speech quality for narrowband and wideband VoIP using TMS320C6713 DSP processor. The VoIP si...

The orofacial area is central for several vital functions such as breathing and eating. The orofacial area also acts as the basis for social interaction, emotional communication, facial expression and speech communication. Normal orofacial sensorimotor development is necessary for these functions to develop and mature in the child, hence orofacial dysfunction may be severely disabling. In the o...

Objectives: One of the most effective methods to describe speech disorders is the measurement of speech intelligibility. The speech intelligibility indicates the extent of acoustic signals that correctly speaker produces and hearer receives. The purpose of this study was to investigate the speech intelligibility in the Persian children with Down syndrome, age range was 3 to 5 years, who had spo...

We introduce a technique for augmenting neural text-to-speech (TTS) with lowdimensional trainable speaker embeddings to generate different voices from a single model. As a starting point, we show improvements over the two state-ofthe-art approaches for single-speaker neural TTS: Deep Voice 1 and Tacotron. We introduce Deep Voice 2, which is based on a similar pipeline with Deep Voice 1, but con...

OBJECTIVE To compare and contrast functional speech outcomes of patients having undergone total laryngectomy and pharyngolaryngectomy who use tracheoesophageal speech as their primary mode of communication. DESIGN Group comparison design. SETTING Adult acute tertiary care hospital. PATIENTS Thirty patients who underwent total laryngectomy and 13 who underwent pharyngolaryngectomy with fre...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Voice abnormality is a frequent finding in school age children born at <25 weeks' gestation in Western Australia. The objective of this study was to determine the frequency of voice abnormality, voice-related quality of life, and demographic and intubation factors in this population. METHODS Survivors <25 weeks' gestational age in Western Australia born from 1996 to ...

This paper proposes speaking-aid systems based on one-to-many eigenvoice conversion (EVC) for enhancing three types of alaryngeal speech: esophageal speech; electrolaryngeal speech; and body-conducted silent electrolaryngeal speech. Although alaryngeal speech allows laryngectomees to utter speech sounds, it suffers from lack of naturalness and speaker individuality. To improve the sound quality...

Problem statement: In mobile communication, speech coding aims at compressing the speech with lowest bitrate and highest quality for standard languages such as English, German and French. As for other languages with different uttering styles, the encoded speech quality is not guaranteed at the same bitrate. The appropriate evaluation should be performed to develop the speech quality by applying...