Publications associées à Voix humaine

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 ...

2023

Adjustable deterministic pseudonymization of speech

Mathew Magimai Doss, Subrahmanya Pavankumar Dubagunta

While public speech resources become increasingly available, there is a growing interest to preserve the privacy of the speakers, through methods that anonymize the speaker information from speech while preserving the spoken linguistic content. In this pap ...

ACADEMIC PRESS LTD- ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD2022

On 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 ASSOC2022

Processing 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 ...

2019

Trustworthy speaker recognition with minimal prior knowledge using neural networks

Hannah Muckenhirn

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 ...

EPFL2019

Neural Decoding of Discriminative Auditory Object Features Depends on Their Socio-Affective Valence

Wietske Van der Zwaag, Melissa Saenz

Human voices consist of specific patterns of acoustic features that are considerably enhanced during affective vocalizations. These acoustic features are presumably used by listeners to accurately discriminate between acoustically or emotionally similar vo ...

Oxford University Press (OUP)2016

Joint Source-Filter Optimization for Accurate Vocal Tract Estimation Using Differential Evolution

Jean-Marc Vesin, Olaf Schleusing

In this work, we present a joint source-filter optimization approach for separating voiced speech into vocal tract (VT) and voice source components. The presented method is pitch-synchronous and thereby exhibits a high robustness against vocal jitter, shim ...

Ieee-Inst Electrical Electronics Engineers Inc2013

Big brother is watching you: eavesdropping to resolve family conflicts

Christof Faller

Adult animals can eavesdrop on behavioral interactions between potential opponents to assess their competitive ability and motivation to contest resources without interacting directly with them. Surprisingly, eavesdropping is not yet considered as an impor ...

Oxford University Press2013

Multi-parametric source-filter separation of speech and prosodic voice restoration

Olaf Schleusing

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 ...

EPFL2012

Impact de la communication voco-visuelle dans le management sur la motivation des collaborateurs

Our research work wishes to highlight the importance of the relationship between the vocal and physical behaviour of the manager and team motivation. In order to investigate this important relationship, a survey by means of a questionnaire and two field st ...

EPFL2009