The paper addresses the problem of speaker (or voice) de-identification by presenting a
novel approach for concealing the identity of speakers in their speech. The proposed …

Arabic is one of the major languages in the world. Unfortunately not so much research in
Arabic speaker recognition has been done. One main reason for this lack of research is the …

In this article we present an efficient approach to modeling the acoustic features for the tasks
of recognizing various paralinguistic phenomena. Instead of the standard scheme of …

The paper details the creation of an open access speech corpus for a less-resourced
language, covering the diversity in terms of accents, dialects, speech styles and …

Multi-Modal Emotional Database: AvID 1 Introduction 2 Recording strategies Page 1
Informatica 33 (2009) 101–106 101 Multi-Modal Emotional Database: AvID Rok Gajšek, Vitomir …

The paper presents a comparison of different classification techniques for the task of
classifying a speaker's emotional state into one of two classes: aroused and normal. The …

The paper discuses the usage of linear transformations of Hidden Markov Models, normally
employed for speaker and environment adaptation, as a way of extracting the emotional …

This work assesses different approaches for speech and non-speech segmentation of audio
data and proposes a new, high-level representation of audio signals based on phoneme …

A small self-voicing Web browser designed for blind users is presented. The Web browser
was built from the GTK Web browser Dillo, which is a free software project in terms of the …

Availability of databases is a necessity in the speech processing field. The publically
available databases in Arabic language are few. In this paper we describe a rich database …