AIMC Topic: Speech Production Measurement

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Using articulatory feature detectors in progressive networks for multilingual low-resource phone recognitiona).

The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America
Systems inspired by progressive neural networks, transferring information from end-to-end articulatory feature detectors to similarly structured phone recognizers, are described. These networks, connecting the corresponding recurrent layers of pre-tr...

Evaluating the consistency of lenition measures: Neural networks' posterior probability, intensity velocity, and duration.

The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America
Predictions of gradient degree of lenition of voiceless and voiced stops in a corpus of Argentine Spanish are evaluated using three acoustic measures (minimum and maximum intensity velocity and duration) and two recurrent neural network (Phonet) meas...

A joint-feature learning-based voice conversion system for dysarthric user based on deep learning technology.

Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. Annual International Conference
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...

Fusion of WPT and MFCC feature extraction in Parkinson's disease diagnosis.

Technology and health care : official journal of the European Society for Engineering and Medicine
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 ...

A transfer learning approach to goodness of pronunciation based automatic mispronunciation detection.

The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America
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...

[The application of artificial neural network on the assessment of lexical tone production of pediatric cochlear implant users].

Zhonghua er bi yan hou tou jing wai ke za zhi = Chinese journal of otorhinolaryngology head and neck surgery
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...

Auditory feature representation using convolutional restricted Boltzmann machine and Teager energy operator for speech recognition.

The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America
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...

Estimating the spectral tilt of the glottal source from telephone speech using a deep neural network.

The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America
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...

Improved speech inversion using general regression neural network.

The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America
The problem of nonlinear acoustic to articulatory inversion mapping is investigated in the feature space using two models, the deep belief network (DBN) which is the state-of-the-art, and the general regression neural network (GRNN). The task is to e...

Chat-Bots for People with Parkinson's Disease: Science Fiction or Reality?

Studies in health technology and informatics
People with Parkinson's disease are known to have difficulties in language and communication. This paper proposes the use of an artificial conversational agent, commonly known as a chat-bot that runs on a smart-phone device and performs two-way conve...