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Acoustic voice characteristics with and without wearing a facemask
Scientific Reports, 2021 Facemasks are essential for healthcare workers but characteristics of the voice whilst wearing this personal protective equipment are not well understood. In the present study, we compared acoustic voice measures in recordings of sixteen adults producing
Duy Duong Nguyen +7 more
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How the Brain Understands Spoken and Sung Sentences
Brain Sciences, 2020 The present study investigates whether meaning is similarly extracted from spoken and sung sentences. For this purpose, subjects listened to semantically correct and incorrect sentences while performing a correctness judgement task.
Sonja Rossi +5 more
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Children's Voice and Voice Disorders
Seminars in Speech and Language, 2013 This article discusses the differences between children's voices and adult voices. We give an overview of the anatomy in the head and neck and specifically the anatomy of the respiratory system and the larynx. We also describe the development of children's voices including different physiological measures and voice quality.
McAllister, Anita, Sjölander, Peta
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Multimodal Lip-Reading for Tracheostomy Patients in the Greek Language
Computers, 2022 Voice loss constitutes a crucial disorder which is highly associated with social isolation. The use of multimodal information sources, such as, audiovisual information, is crucial since it can lead to the development of straightforward personalized word ...
Yorghos Voutos +6 more
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Is voice therapy an effective treatment for dysphonia? A randomised controlled trial [PDF]
, 2001 OBJECTIVES: To assess the overall efficacy of voice therapy for dysphonia. DESIGN: Single blind randomised controlled trial. SETTING: Outpatient clinic in a teaching hospital.
Deary, I.J. +4 more
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Improving Zero-shot Voice Style Transfer via Disentangled Representation Learning [PDF]
arXiv, 2021 Voice style transfer, also called voice conversion, seeks to modify one speaker's voice to generate speech as if it came from another (target) speaker. Previous works have made progress on voice conversion with parallel training data and pre-known speakers.
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Revolutionizing Personalized Voice Synthesis: The Journey towards Emotional and Individual Authenticity with DIVSE (Dynamic Individual Voice Synthesis Engine) [PDF]
arXiv, 2023 This comprehensive paper delves into the forefront of personalized voice synthesis within artificial intelligence (AI), spotlighting the Dynamic Individual Voice Synthesis Engine (DIVSE). DIVSE represents a groundbreaking leap in text-to-voice (TTS) technology, uniquely focusing on adapting and personalizing voice outputs to match individual vocal ...
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Coalition structure generation over graphs
, 2012 We give the analysis of the computational complexity of coalition structure generation over graphs. Given an undirected graph G = (N,E) and a valuation function v : P(N) → R over the subsets of nodes, the problem is to find a partition of N into ...
Jennings, Nicholas R. +2 more
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OTO Open, 2019 Objective To propose and test the validity of a new syndrome called retrograde cricopharyngeus dysfunction (R-CPD) that explains inability to belch and the associated symptoms of loud gurgling noises, chest and abdominal pain/distention, and excessive ...
Robert W. Bastian MD +1 more
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