The core concern of this paper is the modelling and the tractability of expressiveness in natural voice synthesis. In the first part we quickly discuss the imponderable gap between natural and singing voice synthesis approaches. In the second part we outline a four level model and a corpus-based methodology in modelling expressive forms—an essential step towards expressive voice synthesis. We t...

E-learning system which allows students’ confidence level evaluation with their voice when they answer to the question during achievement tests is proposed. Through experiments of comparison of students’ confidence level between the conventional (without evaluation) and the proposed (with evaluation), 17-57% of improvement is confirmed for the proposed e-learning system. Keywordslearnng system;...

A control system in satellite communication terminal of low information rate is designed via program based on ATmega128 system controller, which has realized the function of operation control in the satellite communication terminal of low information rate. The synchronization signal of clock is simulated via Mcu I/O interface to voice-coder. Mcu controls the input and output of analog signal an...

Humans can identify individuals from their voice, suggesting the existence of a perceptual representation of voice identity. We used perceptual aftereffects--shifts in perceived stimulus quality after brief exposure to a repeated adaptor stimulus--to further investigate the representation of voice identity in two experiments. Healthy adult listeners were familiarized with several voices until t...

In PCS networks, the multiple access problem is characterized by spatially dispersed mobile source terminals sharing a radio channel connected to a fixed base station. In this paper, we design and evaluate a reservation random access (RRA) scheme that multiplexes voice traffic at the talkspurt level to efficiently integrate voice and data traffic in outdoor microcellular environments. The schem...

introduction: the every possible attempt in voice disorders assessment is to gather samples which represent individual s’ actual voice in the daily speech. the researchers have found that voice characteristics in reading a passage are closer to daily speech. making texts has been started since early 20th century. the lack o f suitable text in farsi language makes it difficult to conduct requisi...

Introduction: Laryngeal burns cause long-term voice disorders due to mucosal changes of the vocal folds. Inhalation injuries affect voice production and result in changes in the mucosal thickness and voice quality.   Case Report: A 47-year-old woman was transferred to our department with laryngeal burns sustained during a house fire. On laryngoscopic examination, mucosal waves of both vocal fol...

The current study investigated the effect of familiarity with the voice and face of a talker on a subsequent speech intelligibility task. Participants were first familiarized with four animated characters that they learned to identify by voice, by face and by both face and voice. Ceiling level performance was reached. Following this training, participants were given a speech in noise identifica...