The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America
28464691
Estimation of the spectral tilt of the glottal source has several applications in speech analysis and modification. However, direct estimation of the tilt from telephone speech is challenging due to vocal tract resonances and distortion caused by spe...
The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America
28618812
In this letter, authors propose an auditory feature representation technique with the filterbank learned using an annealing dropout convolutional restricted Boltzmann machine (ConvRBM) and noise-robust energy estimation using the Teager energy operat...
Zhonghua er bi yan hou tou jing wai ke za zhi = Chinese journal of otorhinolaryngology head and neck surgery
28822408
The present study was carried out to explore the tone production ability of the Mandarin-speaking children with cochlear implants (CI) by using an artificial neural network model and to examine the potential contributing factors underlining their to...
The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America
29195422
Goodness of pronunciation (GOP) is the most widely used method for automatic mispronunciation detection. In this paper, a transfer learning approach to GOP based mispronunciation detection when applying maximum F1-score criterion (MFC) training to de...
Journal of voice : official journal of the Voice Foundation
29567049
OBJECTIVES: Computerized detection of voice disorders has attracted considerable academic and clinical interest in the hope of providing an effective screening method for voice diseases before endoscopic confirmation. This study proposes a deep-learn...
International journal of speech-language pathology
30409057
: This research aimed to automatically predict intelligible speaking rate for individuals with Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) based on speech acoustic and articulatory samples. Twelve participants with ALS and two normal subjects produced a tot...
Technology and health care : official journal of the European Society for Engineering and Medicine
30664511
BACKGROUND: Parkinson's disease (PD) is a neurological disorder, progressive in nature. In order to provide customized patient care, diagnosis and monitoring using smart gadgets, smartphones, and smartwatches, there is a need for a system that works ...
Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. Annual International Conference
31946255
Dysarthria speakers suffer from poor communication, and voice conversion (VC) technology is a potential approach for improving their speech quality. This study presents a joint feature learning approach to improve a sub-band deep neural network-based...
IEEE transactions on neural systems and rehabilitation engineering : a publication of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society
33929963
Dysarthria is a disorder that affects an individual's speech intelligibility due to the paralysis of muscles and organs involved in the articulation process. As the condition is often associated with physically debilitating disabilities, not only do ...
IEEE transactions on bio-medical engineering
33566756
OBJECTIVES: Evaluation of hypernasality requires extensive perceptual training by clinicians and extending this training on a large scale internationally is untenable; this compounds the health disparities that already exist among children with cleft...