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Novel 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 ...

EPFL2023

Linguistic traits as heritable units? Spatial Bayesian clustering reveals Swiss German dialect regions

Stéphane Joost, Noemi Romano

In the early 2000s, the SADS, an extensive linguistic atlas project, surveyed more than three thousand individuals across German-speaking Switzerland on over two hundred linguistic variants, capturing the morphosyntactic variation in Swiss German. In this ...

2022

Automatic Pathological Speech Intelligibility Assessment Exploiting Subspace-Based Analyses

Hervé Bourlard, Ina Kodrasi, Parvaneh Janbakhshi

Competitive state-of-the-art automatic pathological speech intelligibility measures typically rely on regression training on a large number of features, require a large amount of healthy speech training data, or are applicable only to phonetically balanced ...

IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC2020

PATHOLOGICAL SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY ASSESSMENT BASED ON THE SHORT-TIME OBJECTIVE INTELLIGIBILITY MEASURE

Hervé Bourlard, Ina Kodrasi, Parvaneh Janbakhshi

Impaired speech intelligibility in motor speech disorders arising due to neurological diseases negatively affects the communication ability and quality of life of patients. Reliable and cost-effective measures to automatically assess speec ...

2019

Pathological Speech Intelligibility Assessment based on the Short-Time Objective Intelligibility Measure

Hervé Bourlard, Ina Kodrasi, Parvaneh Janbakhshi

IEEE2019

Cross-Platform Language Design

Sébastien Jean R Doeraene

Programming languages are increasingly compiled to multiple runtimes, each featuring their own rich structures such as their object model. Furthermore, they need to interact with other languages targeting said runtimes. A language targeting only one runtim ...

EPFL2018

Objective Speech Intelligibility Assessment through Comparison of Phoneme Class Conditional Probability Sequences

Hervé Bourlard, Raphaël Marc Ullmann

Assessment of speech intelligibility is important for the development of speech systems, such as telephony systems and text-to-speech (TTS) systems. Existing approaches to the automatic assessment of intelligibility in telephony typically compare a referen ...

2015

Objective Intelligibility Assessment of Text-to-Speech Systems Through Utterance Verification

Hervé Bourlard, Ramya Rasipuram, Raphaël Marc Ullmann

Objective assessment of synthetic speech intelligibility can be a useful tool for the development of text-to-speech (TTS) systems, as it provides a reproducible and inexpensive alternative to subjective listening tests. In a recent work, it was shown that ...

Idiap2015

Objective Intelligibility Assessment of Text-to-Speech Systems Through Utterance Verification

Hervé Bourlard, Ramya Rasipuram, Raphaël Marc Ullmann

2015

Automatic Speech Recognition and Translation of a Swiss German Dialect: Walliserdeutsch

Philip Neil Garner, David Imseng, Thomas Meyer

Walliserdeutsch is a Swiss German dialect spoken in the south west of Switzerland. To investigate the potential of automatic speech processing of Walliserdeutsch, a small database was collected based mainly on broadcast news from a local radio station. Exp ...

2014

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