Vocal-tract length
Bias Adaptation for Vocal Tract Length Normalization
... Index Terms: Vocal Tract Length Normalization, Bias term, Hidden Markov models, Speech synthesis, Speech recognition 1. Introduction Recent advances in the field of statistical parametric speech syn- ...
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Vocal Tract Length Normalization for Statistical Parametric Speech Synthesis
... Abstract Vocal tract length normalization (VTLN) has been successfully used in automatic speech recognition for improved performance. The same technique can be implemented in statistical parametric ...
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Combining vocal tract length normalization with hierarchial linear transformations
... Statistical parametric synthesis [1] using hidden Markov models (HMM) has proven to be a particularly flexible and robust framework for performing speaker transformation, leveraging off a range of s- peaker adaptation ...
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Vocal tract length and acoustics of vocalization in the domestic dog (Canis familiaris)
... that vocal tract length is correlated with body size in domestic dogs, despite the apparent variation in skull and vocal tract shape induced by selective ...theory, vocal ...
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Discrimination of Voice Pitch and Vocal-Tract Length in Cochlear Implant Users
... to vocal-tract length (VTL; related to the height of the speaker and formant frequencies), the other principal voice char- acteristic, has not been directly investigated in ...
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Multi-speaker frequency warping vocal tract length normalization for speaker independent speech recognition
... in vocal tract length. Compensation on vocal tract length variation can be made using Vocal Tract Length Normalization (VTLN) method which is known to be ...
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Discrimination of Voice Pitch and Vocal-Tract Length in Cochlear Implant Users Gaudrain, Etienne; Başkent, Deniz
... to vocal-tract length (VTL; related to the height of the speaker and formant frequencies), the other principal voice char- acteristic, has not been directly investigated in ...
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Classification of speech under stress based on modeling of the vocal folds and vocal tract
... the vocal folds and vocal tract during the process of speech production and to explore the physical parameters involved, we propose a method using the two-mass ...the vocal folds, vocal ...
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Vocal tract dimensions and vocal fold vibratory characteristics of professional singers of different singing voice types
... obtain vocal tract dimensional measures, by making use of the Acoustic Reflection Technology (ART) to measure the three- dimensional shape and size of vocal tract, including oral, nasal and ...
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Real-Time Vocal Tract Model for Elongation of Segment Lengths in a Waveguide Model
... Basic vocal tract model and fractional delay The vocal tract is assumed to be constructed of a certain number of co-axial uniform cylindrical seg- ...the vocal tract and the ...
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Singing synthesis and the Vocal Tract Organ
... Abstract Vocal synthesis has been the subject of investigation since the late 18 th century when von Kempelen produced his mechanical Ôspeaking ...human vocal tracts, it has been possible to create ...
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Vocal tract dynamics in an adult stutterer
... complexity of laryngeal movements preparatory to vocalization, three types of vocal attack are commonly described (a) soft attack (simultaneous) where PCA activity is suppressed thr[r] ...
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Vocal tract constancy in birds and humans
... Additionally to similarities between humans and birds regarding the purpose of vocalisations and the acoustical structure of vocalisations, there are similarities in terms of vocal production problems. Blurring of ...
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Integrating Complementary Features from Vocal Source and Vocal Tract for Speaker Identification
... This paper presents a novel feature extraction technique to generate the vocal source related acoustic features from the LP residual signal. We have shown that the proposed WOCOR features contain speaker-specific ...
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Profile of Patients with Stroke and Disorders of the Vocal Tract
... Clinically, they were characterized with the highest percentage for ischemic stroke (89.4%) compared to the hemorrhagic type (10.6%). Most of them were referred for computed tomography (86.5%) and remained hospitalized ...
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Vocal tract filtering and sound radiation in a songbird
... Fletcher and Tarnopolsky (1999) used cylindrical and conical models to estimate the effects of beak gape on radiated sound. Our results are consistent with these models since high sound frequencies tend to radiate more ...
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The Comparative Anatomy and Evolution of the Human Vocal Tract
... The length o f the hyoid bone is often related to the anterio-posterior length o f the pharynx (Negus, 1949; Harrison, 1995; Trenmouth & Timms, ...mandibular length and the total length o f ...
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Modal locking between vocal fold and vocal tract oscillations: Simulations in time domain
... Based on the observations of Section 7, it seems likely that the overall subglottal effect on the fundamental frequency f 0 is insignificant for vowel glides within [180 Hz, 360 Hz] that is over 100 Hz away from e R 1 . ...
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Relevance of the glottal pulse and the vocal tract in gender detection
... and vocal tract components which are parameterized as mel-frequency ...and vocal tract parameters are used in a gender-balanced database of running speech from 340 ...
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The influence of the vocal tract on the attack transients in clarinet playing
... of vocal tract adjustment during clar- inet ...the vocal tract not only for extended playing techniques or extended registers, but also for ordinary ...playing. Vocal tract ...
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