Concept
Tone (linguistics)
Publications associées (9)
Perceptual grouping leads to objecthood effects in the Ebbinghaus illusion
Michael Herzog, Aline Françoise Cretenoud, Einat Rashal
The Ebbinghaus illusion is argued to be a product of low-level contour interactions or a higher cognitive comparison process. We examined the effect of grouping on the illusion by manipulating objecthood, i.e., the degree to which an object is a cohesive p ...
2020Intonation modelling using a muscle model and perceptually weighted matching pursuit
Philip Neil Garner, Pierre-Edouard Jean Charles Honnet
We propose a physiologically based intonation model using perceptual relevance. Motivated by speech synthesis from a speech-to-speech translation (S2ST) point of view, we aim at a language independent way of modelling intonation. The model presented in thi ...
2018Characterisation of voice quality of Parkinson's disease using differential phonological posterior features
Change in voice quality (VQ) is one of the first precursors of Parkinson's disease (PD). Specifically, impacted phonation and articulation causes the patient to have a breathy, husky-semiwhisper and hoarse voice. A goal of this paper is to characterize a V ...
Idiap2017Syllabic Pitch Tuning for Neutral-to-Emotional Voice Conversion
Milos Cernak, Lakshmi Babu Saheer
Prosody plays an important role in both identification and synthesis of emotionalized speech. Prosodic features like pitch are usually estimated and altered at a segmental level based on short windows of speech (where the signal is expected to be quasi-sta ...
Idiap2015Syllable-based Pitch Encoding for Low Bit Rate Speech Coding with Recognition/Synthesis Architecture
Philip Neil Garner, Milos Cernak
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 ...
Idiap2013Convolutional Pitch Target Approximation Model for Speech Synthesis
In this paper, we investigate pitch contour modelling in speech synthesis based on segmental units. A convolutional pitch target approximation model is proposed. This model allows jointly stochastic modelling of framewise pitch and pitch contour of longer ...
Idiap2013Individual Differences in the Discrimination of Novel Speech Sounds: Effects of Sex, Temporal Processing, Musical and Cognitive Abilities
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 ...
Public Library of Science2012Multilayer Perceptron Based Hierarchical Acoustic Modeling for Automatic Speech Recognition
In this thesis, we investigate a hierarchical approach for estimating the phonetic class-conditional probabilities using a multilayer perceptron (MLP) neural network. The architecture consists of two MLP classifiers in cascade. The first MLP is trained in ...
EPFL2010Impact 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