Speech output technology is finding widespread application, including in scenarios where
intelligibility might be compromised–at least for some listeners–by adverse conditions …

This chapter focuses on the characteristics and effectiveness of clear speech (CS) aimed at
enhancing intelligibility for adult interlocutors with perceptual difficulties arising from hearing …

Speech output is used extensively, including in situations where correct message reception
is threatened by adverse listening conditions. Recently, there has been a growing interest in …

Identifying the gender of a person and his age by way of speaking is considered a crucial
task in computer vision. It is a very important and active research topic with many areas of …

The increased adoption of digital assistants makes text-to-speech (TTS) synthesis systems
an indispensable feature of modern mobile devices. It is hence desirable to build a system …

Speech perception studies typically rely on trained research assistants to score orthographic
listener transcripts for words correctly identified. While the accuracy of the human scoring …

Spectro-temporal modulations are believed to mediate the analysis of speech sounds in the
human primary auditory cortex. Inspired by humans' robustness in comprehending speech …

Audio-visual speech enhancement is the task of improving the quality of a speech signal
when video of the speaker is available. It opens-up the opportunity of improving speech …

Although speech intelligibility has been studied in different fields such as speech pathology,
language learning, psycholinguistics, and speech synthesis, it is still unclear which concrete …

Feature-based vocoders, eg, STRAIGHT, offer a way to manipulate the perceived
characteristics of the speech signal in speech transformation and synthesis. For the …