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In this thesis, methods and models are developed and presented aiming at the estimation, restoration and transformation of the characteristics of human speech. During a first period of the thesis, a concept was developed that allows restoring prosodic voic ...
Current HMM-based low bit rate speech coding systems work with phonetic vocoders. Pitch contour coding (on frame or phoneme level) is usually fairly orthogonal to other speech coding parameters. We make an assumption in our work that the speech signal cont ...
This study examined whether rapid temporal auditory processing, verbal working memory capacity, non-verbal intelligence, executive functioning, musical ability and prior foreign language experience predicted how well native English speakers (N = 120) discr ...
This paper investigates the combination of cepstral normalization and cochlear implant-like speech processing for microphone array- based speech recognition. Testing speech signals are recorded by a circular microphone array and are subsequently processed ...
In a previous paper on speech recognition, we showed that templates can better capture the dynamics of speech signal compared to parametric models such as hidden Markov models. The key point in template matching approaches is finding the most similar templ ...
Many works on speech processing have dealt with auto-regressive (AR) models for spectral envelope and formant frequency estimation, mostly focusing on the estimation of the AR parameters. However, it is also interesting to be able to directly estimate the ...
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This paper demonstrates the robustness of group-delay based features for speech processing. An analysis of group delay functions is presented which show that these features retain formant structure even in noise. Furthermore, a speaker verification task pe ...
In a previous paper on speech recognition, we showed that templates can better capture the dynamics of speech signal compared to parametric models such as hidden Markov models. The key point in template matching approaches is finding the most similar templ ...
The goal of this thesis is to develop and design new feature representations that can improve the automatic speech recognition (ASR) performance in clean as well noisy conditions. One of the main shortcomings of the fixed scale (typically 20-30 ms long ana ...
This paper demonstrates the robustness of group-delay based features for speech processing. An analysis of group delay functions is presented which show that these features retain formant structure even in noise. Furthermore, a speaker verification task pe ...
