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Human voice
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Bone conduction facilitates self-other voice discrimination
Olaf Blanke, Nathan Quentin Faivre, Oliver Alan Kannape, Pavo Orepic
One's own voice is one of the most important and most frequently heard voices. Although it is the sound we associate most with ourselves, it is perceived as strange when played back in a recording. One of the main reasons is the lack of bone conduction tha ...
2023Emotional sounds in space: asymmetrical representation within early-stage auditory areas
Evidence from behavioral studies suggests that the spatial origin of sounds may influence the perception of emotional valence. Using 7T fMRI we have investigated the impact of the categories of sound (vocalizations; non-vocalizations), emotional valence (p ...
FRONTIERS MEDIA SA2023Novel Methods For Detection And Analysis Of Atypical Aspects In Speech
Atypical aspects in speech concern speech that deviates from what is commonly considered normal or healthy. In this thesis, we propose novel methods for detection and analysis of these aspects, e.g. to monitor the temporary state of a speaker, diseases tha ...
EPFL2023On Breathing Pattern Information in Synthetic Speech
Mathew Magimai Doss, Zohreh Mostaani
The respiratory system is an integral part of human speech production. As a consequence, there is a close relation between respiration and speech signal, and the produced speech signal carries breathing pattern related information. Speech can also be gener ...
ISCA-INT SPEECH COMMUNICATION ASSOC2022Automatic pathological speech assessment
Many pathologies cause impairments in the speech production mechanism resulting in reduced speech intelligibility and communicative ability. To assist the clinical diagnosis, treatment and management of speech disorders, automatic pathological speech asses ...
EPFL2022Unsupervised Voice Activity Detection by Modeling Source and System Information using Zero Frequency Filtering
Mathew Magimai Doss, Eklavya Sarkar
Voice activity detection (VAD) is an important pre-processing step for speech technology applications. The task consists of deriving segment boundaries of audio signals which contain voicing information. In recent years, it has been shown that voice source ...
2022Processing pathways for emotional vocalizations
Olivier Benoit Thomas Reynaud, Stephanie Clarke
Emotional sounds are processed within a large cortico-subcortical network, of which the auditory cortex, the voice area, and the amygdala are the core regions. Using 7T fMRI, we have compared the effect of emotional valence (positive, neutral, and negative ...
2019Trustworthy speaker recognition with minimal prior knowledge using neural networks
The performance of speaker recognition systems has considerably improved in the last decade. This is mainly due to the development of Gaussian mixture model-based systems and in particular to the use of i-vectors. These systems handle relatively well noise ...
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