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Siri, you've changed! Acoustic properties and racialized judgments of voice assistants
Frontiers in Communication, 2023 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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Applied Sciences, 2021 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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Self-Reported Voice-Related Quality of Life in Cochlear Implant Users
Revista de Investigación e Innovación en Ciencias de la Salud, 2023 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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Korean laryngeal contrast revisited: An electroglottographic study on denasalized and oral stops
Laboratory Phonology, 2021 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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Assessing vowel effects on voice quality, and voice quality effects on the respiratory system [PDF]
JASA Express Letters, 2021 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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Choice of Voices: A Large-Scale Evaluation of Text-to-Speech Voice Quality for Long-Form Content
International Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2020 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
Logopedics, Phoniatrics, Vocology, 2020 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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Efficacy of Cepstral Measures in Voice Disorder Diagnosis: A Literature Review
Journal of Modern Rehabilitation, 2022 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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Clinical Otolaryngology, 2020 The evaluation of voice quality with acoustic measurements is useful to objectify the diagnostic process. Particularly, breathiness was highly evaluated and the Acoustic Breathiness Index (ABI) might have promising features.
Ben Barsties v. Latoszek +6 more
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Phonetica: International Journal of Phonetic Science, 2020 Prosodic features, such as intonation and voice intensity, have a well-documented role in communicating emotion, but less is known about the role of laryngeal voice quality in speech and particularly in nonverbal vocalizations such as laughs and moans ...
Andrey Anikin
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