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Unsupervised Pre-Training for Voice Activation
Applied Sciences, 2020 The problem of voice activation is to find a pre-defined word in the audio stream. Solutions such as keyword spotter “Ok, Google” for Android devices or keyword spotter “Alexa” for Amazon devices use tens of thousands to millions of keyword examples in ...
Aliaksei Kolesau, Dmitrij Šešok
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COVID-19 and the teacher's voice: self-perception and contributions of speech therapy to voice and communication during the pandemic [PDF]
ClinicsOBJECTIVES: We aimed to analyze the vocal self-perception of Brazilian teachers and their communication needs, vocal signs and symptoms, and voice-related lifestyles during the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic and, based on this information, to ...
Katia Nemr +4 more
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Vocal warm-up and breathing training for teachers: randomized clinical trial
Revista de Saúde Pública, 2015 OBJECTIVE To compare the effectiveness of two speech therapy interventions, vocal warm-up and breathing training, focusing on teachers’ voice quality.METHODS A single-blind, randomized, parallel clinical trial was conducted.
Lílian Paternostro de Pina Pereira +2 more
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The Influence of Posture and Balance on Voice: A Review
Gazeta Médica, 2018 The role of posture in vocal performance is recognized for many years. Speech therapists and singing teachers use this knowledge to correct bad postures to improve vocal quality with good results, although most of that knowledge is empirical.
Maria Caçador
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Estill Voice TrainingTM - A Popular Approach to Voice Training
Listy klinicke logopedieEstill Voice TrainingTM (EVT) is a voice training method based on the understanding of how the vocal mechanism works. This method offers an effective approach to voice development, re-education, and rehabilitation, making it valuable also in speech ...
Kateřina Jehličková
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Spectrographic analysis of the effect of vocal warm-up on the voice of choir girls
Audiology: Communication Research, 2014 Purpose To analyse the immediate effect of a vocal warm-up program on children that sang in a choir by means of spectrographic analysis. Methods Experimental study consisting of 14 girls from an amateur children’s choir, aged 9 to 12 years.
Lília Maria Gomes Falcão +3 more
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Revista CEFAC, 2012 PURPOSE: one major cause of dysphonia can be linked to the presence of vocal folds nodules - a condition commonly seen in children due to vocal misuse and/or vocal abuse.
Maria Rosário Dias +1 more
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Applied Sciences, 2019 This paper presents a noise-robust voice conversion method with high-quefrency boosting via sub-band cepstrum conversion and fusion based on the bidirectional long short-term memory (BLSTM) neural networks that can convert parameters of vocal tracks of a
Xiaokong Miao +3 more
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EURASIP Journal on Audio, Speech, and Music ProcessingHearable devices, equipped with one or more microphones, can be used to capture the user’s own voice in noisy environments. In such environments, an own voice reconstruction (OVR) system is needed to enhance the quality and intelligibility of the ...
Mattes Ohlenbusch +2 more
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The effect of voice training interventions on patients with oropharyngeal dysphagia: a systematic review. [PDF]
Eur Arch Otorhinolaryngol, 2023 Niu C +6 more
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