The great majority of current voice technology applications rely on acoustic features, such as
the widely used MFCC or LP parameters, which characterize the vocal tract response …

This article presents a methodical approach for improving quadratic time-frequency
distribution (QTFD) methods by designing adapted time-frequency (TF) kernels for diagnosis …

The aim of this work is to investigate the impact of crossmodal self-supervised pre-training
for speech reconstruction (video-to-audio) by leveraging the natural co-occurrence of audio …

Purpose The acoustic signal attributes of whispered speech potentially carry sufficiently
distinct information to define vowel spaces and to disambiguate consonant place and …

We present an approach to synthesize whisper by applying a handcrafted signal processing
recipe and Voice Conversion (VC) techniques to convert normally phonated speech to …

In this paper, we present novel speaking-aid systems based on one-to-many eigenvoice
conversion (EVC) to enhance three types of alaryngeal speech: esophageal speech …

Whispered speech is a relatively common form of communications, used primarily to
selectively exclude or include potential listeners from hearing a spoken message. Despite …

We propose a bidirectional long short-term memory (BLSTM) based whispered speech to
neutral speech conversion system that employs the STRAIGHT speech synthesizer. We use …

Whispered speech is a natural speaking style that despite its reduced perceptibility, still
contains relevant information regarding the intended message (ie, intelligibility), as well as …

Most methods of voice restoration for patients suffering from aphonia either produce
whispered or monotone speech. Apart from intelligibility, this type of speech lacks …