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...

The expansion of the video games industry raises innovative and challenging issues for speech technologies, e.g. the development of automatic content-based speech processing and speech recognition systems in the context of video games postproduction and voice casting. This paper presents a large-scale study on the classification of vocal effort in expressive speech for video games. Changes in v...

In this paper we present a flexible deterministic plus stochastic model (DSM) approach for parametric speech analysis and synthesis with high quality. The novelty of the proposed speech processing system lies in its extended means to estimate the unvoiced stochastic component and to robustly handle the transformation of the glottal excitation source. It is therefore well suited as speech system...

We present an experiment where voice quality of French and Italian dysphonic speakers was evaluated by French and Italian listeners, specialists in phoniatrics. Results showed that both groups of speakers were perceived in the same way by the two groups of listeners in term of overall severity and breathiness. But the perception of roughness is clearly language dependant. Italian listeners unde...

We present an improved algorithm for a robust speech analysissynthesis method based on an auto-regressive with exogenous input (ARX) speech production model proposed previously. The speech analysis-synthesis method is capable of making an automatic estimation of vocal tract (formant) and voice source parameters from a speech utterance, generating accurate formant values even for very high-pitch...