Freevc: Towards High-Quality Text-Free One-Shot Voice Conversion [PDF]
Voice conversion (VC) can be achieved by first extracting source content information and target speaker information, and then reconstructing waveform with these information.
Jingyi Li, Weiping Tu, Li Xiao
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Korean laryngeal contrast revisited: An electroglottographic study on denasalized and oral stops
In several Korean dialects, domain-initial nasal onsets undergo denasalization as a recent sound change. Nasal stops may be realized as prevoiced or even devoiced stops.
Jiayin Gao, Jihyeon Yun, Takayuki Arai
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Self-Reported Voice-Related Quality of Life in Cochlear Implant Users
Objective. The aim of this study was to identify if cochlear implant (CI) users are perceiving a decrease in life quality due to voice problems. This study evaluated 43 CI user’s perception of their voice and how it affects their quality of life through
Pasquale Bottalico+2 more
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Background: At present, there is no clinical consensus on the concept of normal and dysphonic voices. For many years, the establishment of a consensus on the terminology related to normal and pathological voices has been studied, in order to facilitate ...
Clara Puig-Herreros+3 more
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Siri, you've changed! Acoustic properties and racialized judgments of voice assistants
As speech technology is increasingly integrated into modern American society, voice assistants are a more significant part of our everyday lives. According to Apple, Siri fulfills 25 billion requests each month. As part of a software update in April 2021,
Nicole Holliday
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Assessing vowel effects on voice quality, and voice quality effects on the respiratory system [PDF]
This study assesses (a) effects of vowel height and tense-lax status on the laryngeal closed quotient (CQ) and (b) whether respiratory volume changes vary with differences in CQ. German speakers produced words containing eight different vowels in normal and loud conditions.
Laura L. Koenig, Susanne Fuchs
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Analysis and transformations of voice level in singing voice [PDF]
We introduce a neural auto-encoder that transforms the musical dynamic in recordings of singing voice via changes in voice level. Since most recordings of singing voice are not annotated with voice level we propose a means to estimate the voice level from the signal's timbre using a neural voice level estimator.
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Efficacy of Cepstral Measures in Voice Disorder Diagnosis: A Literature Review
Introduction: The acoustic analysis is one of the well-known methods for voice evaluation. In recent years, many studies have investigated the cepstral measures compared with the other former acoustic parameters.
Mahshid Aghajanzadeh, Saeed Saeedi
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Choice of Voices: A Large-Scale Evaluation of Text-to-Speech Voice Quality for Long-Form Content
The advancement of text-to-speech (TTS) voices and a rise of commercial TTS platforms allow people to easily experience TTS voices across a variety of technologies, applications, and form factors.
Julia Cambre+4 more
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The acoustic voice quality index version 02.02 in the Finnish-speaking population
Background: The Acoustic Voice Quality Index (AVQI) is a multiparametric tool for objectively measuring the general acoustic characteristics of voice. The AVQI uses both sustained vowel and continuous speech in its analysis, and therefore, a validation ...
E. Kankare+9 more
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