Conservationists are increasingly using autonomous acoustic recorders to determine the
presence/absence and the abundance of bird species. Unlike humans, these recorders can …

In speaker recognition, identifying the speaker using the customized features of the speech
signal is crucial. A single type of speech characteristics does not completely denote the …

There are nearly 7,000 languages in the world, most of which are low-resource minority
languages with limited phonetic and linguistic resources. In recent years, with the rapid …

This paper proposes a simple and effective data-adaptive smoothing approach to suppress
the pitch and environment-induced mismatches in keyword spotting (KWS) systems. In the …

A kind of new robotic nursing bed is designed in this paper, which has the functions of
raising back, curling legs, side turning over from left to right separately, and voice …

There are multiple sound events simultaneously occuring in a real-life audio recording
collected eg at a busy street in rush hour. The events may include traffic noise, sound of rain …

The human voice not only provides information about the semantics of spoken words, but
also contains voice information based on its characteristics. This paper designed feasible …

Children's speech can be characterized by higher pitch and format frequencies compared to
the adult speech. Gender identification task from children's speech is difficult as there is no …

In this thesis, I develop a computer process for analysing birdsong dialect and implement a
brand new software named Koe that facilitates real-world analysis of that nature. Koe can …