The goal of this longitudinal study in substitution voice after vertical and horizontal partial laryngectomy was i) to analyse perceptual and acoustic characteristics related to specific surgery, ii) to determine relevant acoustic measurements to classify voice quality. 30 male patients were recorded at 3, 6 and 12 months after surgery and 15 male controls. Two perceptual scales (GRB & IINFVo) ...

This paper presents a new voice conversion algorithm which modiies the utterance of a source speaker to sound like speech from a target speaker. We refer to the method as Speaker Transformation Algorithm using Segmental Codebooks (STASC). A novel method is proposed which nds accurate alignments between source and target speaker utterances. Using the alignments, source speaker acoustic character...

This paper presents a new voice conversion algorithm which modi®es the utterance of a source speaker to sound-like speech from a target speaker. We refer to the method as Speaker Transformation Algorithm using Segmental Codebooks (STASC). A novel method is proposed which ®nds accurate alignments between source and target speaker utterances. Using the alignments, source speaker acoustic characte...

Sixteen patients with paralytic dysphonia were treated with Teflon injection in the paralyzed vocal fold. Trained voice pathologists rated the pre- and postinjection voices on a 5-point scale for each 11 voice characteristics. Among these, aphonia, breathiness, and hypofunction diminished significantly after injection. The perceptual evaluation was correlated with acoustic data from long-time-a...

INTRODUCTION AND OBJECTIVES Vocal fatigue is one of the most common voice symptoms. It usually refers to the sensation of vocal tiredness after a long period of speaking or singing. The purpose of this study was to compare the acoustic characteristics of the voice before and after a long period of voice use in a group of radio broadcasters. METHODS Eight radio broadcasters with normal voices ...