Anatomical differences and habitual long-term features are components in the individual voice quality and are cues about the speakers identity for the listener. Terms for voice quality or phonation types for use in normal speech often come from studies of pathological speech (laryngeal setting). Therefore they may not be well suited to describe voice quality (especially the variations) of a nor...

Objectives: The present study aimed to determine the voice outcomes before and after the administration of voice therapy in patients who suffered an injury to the recurrent laryngeal nerve after undergoing thyroidectomy. Methods: The sample consisted of 26 patients (2 males and 24 females) aged between 18 and 80 years (m=55±12) who experienced injury to the recurrent laryngeal nerve fol...

In emotional speech research, it has been suggested that loudness, along with other prosodic features, may be an important cue in communicating high activation affects. In earlier studies, we found different voice quality stimuli to be consistently associated with certain affective states. In these stimuli, as in typical human productions, the different voice qualities entailed differences in l...

Synthesised stimuli were used to investigate how two notionally separable dimensions of tone-of-voice – voice quality and fundamental frequency – are involved in the expression of affect. Listeners were presented with three series of stimuli: (1) stimuli exemplifying different voice qualities, (2) stimuli all with modal voice quality but with different affect-related f0 contours, and (3) stimul...

This paper tries to introduce a new strategy and tools for voice quality research that complements conventional approaches. A very high-quality speech analysis, modification and synthesis procedure STRAIGHT, which is basically a channel VOCODER based on a pitch-synchronous analysis synthesis framework, was extended to implement auditory morphing in terms of spectral, pitch and voice quality par...

Voice transformation is the process of transforming the characteristics of speech uttered by a source speaker, such that a listener would believe the speech was uttered by a target speaker. In this paper we address the problem of transforming voice quality. We do not attempt to transform prosody. Our system has two main parts corresponding to the two components of the source-filter model of spe...

providing a high-quality service for transmission and playing real-time voice conversations (voice streaming) over wireless ad-hoc networks is no mean feat. buffering together with adjusting the playout time of the packets is a receiver-side solution to overcome this challenge. in this paper, a new adaptive playout adjustment algorithm is proposed to stream the voice conversations over wireless...

acoustic analysis of sounds produced during speech provides significant information about the physiology of larynx and vocal tract. the analysis of voice power spectrum is a fundamental sensitive method of acoustic assessment that provides valuable information about the voice source and characteristics of vocal tract resonance cavities. the changes in long-term average spectrum (ltas) spectral ...