AIMC Topic: Voice

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Finding, visualizing, and quantifying latent structure across diverse animal vocal repertoires.

PLoS computational biology
Animals produce vocalizations that range in complexity from a single repeated call to hundreds of unique vocal elements patterned in sequences unfolding over hours. Characterizing complex vocalizations can require considerable effort and a deep intui...

How Social Cues in Virtual Assistants Influence Concerns and Persuasion: The Role of Voice and a Human Name.

Cyberpsychology, behavior and social networking
The aim of this study was to test how two important types of social cues used by virtual assistants today can affect consumer concerns and persuasion. These two cues are modality (voice-based via smart speaker, voice-based via a smartphone, or text-b...

Machine-Learning Analysis of Voice Samples Recorded through Smartphones: The Combined Effect of Ageing and Gender.

Sensors (Basel, Switzerland)
BACKGROUND: Experimental studies using qualitative or quantitative analysis have demonstrated that the human voice progressively worsens with ageing. These studies, however, have mostly focused on specific voice features without examining their dynam...

Deep Neural Network for Automatic Classification of Pathological Voice Signals.

Journal of voice : official journal of the Voice Foundation
OBJECTIVES: Computer-aided pathological voice detection is efficient for initial screening of pathological voice, and has received high academic and clinical attention. This paper proposes an automatic diagnosis method of pathological voice based on ...

Complexity Measures of Voice Recordings as a Discriminative Tool for Parkinson's Disease.

Biosensors
In this paper, we have investigated the differences in the voices of Parkinson's disease (PD) and age-matched control (CO) subjects when uttering three phonemes using two complexity measures: fractal dimension (FD) and normalised mutual information (...

Ultrasensitive Anti-Interference Voice Recognition by Bio-Inspired Skin-Attachable Self-Cleaning Acoustic Sensors.

ACS nano
Human voice recognition systems (VRSs) are a prerequisite for voice-controlled human-machine interfaces (HMIs). In order to avoid interference from unexpected background noises, skin-attachable VRSs are proposed to directly detect physiological mecha...

Voice-Controlled Intelligent Personal Assistants to Support Aging in Place.

Journal of the American Geriatrics Society
BACKGROUND/OBJECTIVES: Many older adults wish to age in place, and voice-controlled intelligent personal assistants (VIPAs; eg, Amazon Echo and Google Home) potentially could support unmet home needs. No prior studies have researched the real-world u...

Discrimination of "hot potato voice" caused by upper airway obstruction utilizing a support vector machine.

The Laryngoscope
OBJECTIVES/HYPOTHESIS: "Hot potato voice" (HPV) is a thick, muffled voice caused by pharyngeal or laryngeal diseases characterized by severe upper airway obstruction, including acute epiglottitis and peritonsillitis. To develop a method for determini...

A Diadochokinesis-based expert system considering articulatory features of plosive consonants for early detection of Parkinson's disease.

Computer methods and programs in biomedicine
BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE: A new expert system is proposed to discriminate healthy people from people with Parkinson's Disease (PD) in early stages by using Diadochokinesis tests.

Prediction of menarcheal status of girls using voice features.

Computers in biology and medicine
A method for evaluating the menarcheal status of girls on the basis of their voice features is presented in the paper. The registration procedure consists of voice recording and measuring 20 anthropological features. The input feature vector is a com...