This paper presents a new method to classify different speaking groups by using the so called voice quality parameters. By voice quality we mean the characteristics of the glottal excitation of the speech signal. We estimate five parameters describing the voice quality as spectral gradients of the vocal tract compensated speech. They correlate with the glottal speech source features like open q...

in a voice conversion system speech signal of a speaker (i.e. source speaker) is modified so that it sounds as if it had been pronounced by b speaker (i.e. target speaker). this process, sometimes, is called speaker conversion (changing speaker identity). achieved signal from speaker conversion system is desired to have high quality and very natural. to satisfy this, three major methods are pro...

We discuss techniques for Voice Activity Detection (VAD) for Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP). VAD aids in saving bandwidth requirement of a voice session thereby increasing the bandwidth efficiently. In this paper, we compare the quality of speech, level of compression and computational complexity for three time-domain and three frequency-domain VAD algorithms. Implementation of time-domain...

Oronasal region, as an important organ of taste and smell, being respected for its impact on the resonace, which is crucial for any normal speech production. Different congenital, acquired and/or developmentalpdefect, may not only have impacts on the quality of respiration, phonation, resonance, also on the process of a normal speech. This article will enable readers to have more focus in such ...

HMM-based speech synthesis offers a way to generate speech with different voice qualities. However, sometimes databases contain certain inherent voice qualities that need to be parametrized properly. One example of this is vocal fry typically occurring at the end of utterances. A popular mixed excitation vocoder for HMM-based speech synthesis is STRAIGHT. The standard STRAIGHT is optimized for ...

Perceptual voice analysis is a subjective process. However, despite reports of varying degrees of intrajudge and interjudge reliability, it is widely used in clinical voice evaluation. One of the ways to improve the reliability of this procedure is to provide judges with signals as external standards so that comparison can be made in relation to these "anchor" signals. The present study used a ...

The technique of Code Excited Linear Prediction (CELP) has led to the development of voice coding systems that provide toll quality speech at very low bitrates. While speech and singing share many similarities in terms of production, standard speech coding implementations fall far short when transmitting the singing voice. This paper explores the reasons for this discrepancy and suggests new va...