Sharing real-world speech utterances is key to the training and deployment of voice-based services. However, it also raises privacy risks as contains a wealth personal data. Speaker anonymization aims remove speaker information from utterance while leaving its linguistic prosodic attributes intact. State-of-the-art techniques operate by disentangling (represented via embedding) these re-synthes...

objectives: nasality is one of the important parameters in pathology of voice resonance. voice of normal adults has nasality to some extent. it appears that nasality, like other parameters of voice, can be affected by loudness which can be measured in experimental evaluations. this study was conducted to determine the effect of vocal loudness on nasalance of vowels in normal adults and to ident...

the aim of this study was to investigate the effect of the addition of commercial lipase in various forms on the acceleration of the ripening of uf-feta cheese. commercial lipase from aspergillus niger was encapsulated by using silica composition based on sol-gel method. lipase was then added to cheeses in three forms, namely, free lipase, encapsulated lipase, and encapsulated lipase with arabi...

Identification of voice disorders has a fundamental role in our life nowadays. Therefore, many of these diseases must be diagnosed at early stages of occurrence before they lead to a critical condition. Acoustic analysis can be used to identify voice disorders as a complementary technique with other traditional invasive methods, such as laryngoscopy. In this article, we followed an extensive st...

A Digital Voice Systems AMBE-2020 voice coder (vocoder) has been implemented as a functional replacement for the obsolete AMBE-1000. The effort, in part, was a capstone senior design project in Electrical and Computer Engineering at Temple University, which fosters advanced technical topics in undergraduate education using amateur radio. The implementation is open-source and complies with the d...

We formulate an analytical model for capacity evaluation of an infrastructure IEEE 802.11 based network carrying full-duplex packet telephone calls when different types of codecs are used for voice calls. The analysis of the model utilizes the attempt rate results from a well known fixed-point based saturation analysis. The performance estimates obtained match very well with ns2 simulations. Th...