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Pediatric voice-related quality of life and acoustic analysis of voice: a study in schoolchildren
Purpose: to assess the self-reported voice-related quality of life of schoolchildren without voice complaints and correlate it to acoustic parameters of voice. Methods: the research population comprised 31 children, mean age 6.5 (±0.17) years.
Suelene Cibelle Silva dos Reis+3 more
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Identifying synthetic voices qualities for conversational agents [PDF]
The present study aims to explore user acceptance and perceptions toward different quality levels of synthetical voices. To achieve this, four voices have been exploited considering two main factors: the quality of the voices (low vs high) and their gender (male and female).
arxiv
Voice Function and Voice-Related Quality of Life in the Elderly [PDF]
<i>Background:</i> Many studies have referred to the effects of age on voice and the consequences of these changes. However, only little is known about the adverse effects of voice changes on quality of life in the elderly. <i>Objective:</i> This study focuses on self-perception of voice in seniors as assessed by the Voice ...
Schneider, Sophie+4 more
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Purpose: the knowledge concerning care of the voice on the part of professional and amateur singers in Chile is relevant for voice professionals and also for speech pathologists who work in disorder prevention and voice care.
Daniel Rodríguez Marconi+4 more
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Voice quality in Australian English
This study is an acoustic investigation of voice quality in Australian English. The speech of 33 Indigenous Australians (Aboriginal English speakers) is compared to that of 28 Anglo Australians [Mainstream Australian English (MAE) speakers] from two rural locations in Victoria.
Debbie Loakes, Adele Gregory
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Objetivo Correlacionar a qualidade de vida em voz (QVV), avaliação vocal perceptivoauditiva e acústica de professoras com queixas vocais. Métodos Participaram do estudo 74 professoras com idades entre 20 e 62 anos (média 38,75 anos).
Carla Aparecida Cielo+3 more
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I'm Hearing (Different) Voices: Anonymous Voices to Protect User Privacy [PDF]
In this paper, we present AltVoice -- a system designed to help user's protect their privacy when using remotely accessed voice services. The system allows a user to conceal their true voice identity information with no cooperation from the remote voice service: AltVoice re-synthesizes user's spoken audio to sound as if it has been spoken by a ...
arxiv
Risk of Dysphonia in Legal Professionals: Proposal for a Screening Protocol
Introduction. Due to the communicative requirements inherent to the profession, the legal professional benefits from speech therapy monitoring for the proper use of the voice and to avoid the occurrence of vocal disorders.
Maria Beatriz Martini Ramalho Gullino+4 more
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To assess the usefulness of voice quality measurements as a treatment outcome in patients with laryngopharyngeal reflux (LPR)‐related symptoms.
J. Lechien+7 more
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Neural Vocoder Feature Estimation for Dry Singing Voice Separation [PDF]
Singing voice separation (SVS) is a task that separates singing voice audio from its mixture with instrumental audio. Previous SVS studies have mainly employed the spectrogram masking method which requires a large dimensionality in predicting the binary masks.
arxiv