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...

Voice transformation, for example, from a male speaker to female speaker, is achieved here using two-level dynamic warping algorithm in conjunction with an artificial neural network. An outer process which temporally aligns blocks of speech (dynamic time warp, DTW) invokes inner process, spectrally based on magnitude spectra frequency DFW). The mapping function produced by warp used move spectr...

30 schizophrenics who met the criteria of Feighner et al and were having verbal auditory hallucinations, with or without hallucinations of other varieties were chosen for the study. The relation between neuroticism scale of Eysenck's Personality Questionnaire and different aspects of the voice was examined. Neuroticism scores were positively related to the level of anxiety prior to the voice, a...

The social significance of recognizing the person who talks to us is obvious, but the neural mechanisms that mediate talker identification are unclear. Regions along the bilateral superior temporal sulcus (STS) and the inferior frontal cortex (IFC) of the human brain are selective for voices, and they are sensitive to rapid voice changes. Although it has been proposed that voice recognition is ...

The goal of singing voice separation is to recover the vocals signal from music mixtures. State-of-the-art performance achieved by deep neural networks trained in a supervised fashion. Since training data are scarce and signals extremely diverse, it remains challenging achieve high quality across various recording mixing conditions as well styles. In this paper, we investigate which extent can ...

The present study tested whether subjects respond to unanticipated short perturbations in voice loudness feedback with compensatory responses in voice amplitude. The role of stimulus magnitude (+/- 1,3 vs 6 dB SPL), stimulus direction (up vs down), and the ongoing voice amplitude level (normal vs soft) were compared across compensations. Subjects responded to perturbations in voice loudness fee...