EMG-to-speech: Direct generation of speech from facial electromyographic signals

M Janke, L Diener - IEEE/ACM Transactions on Audio, Speech …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Silent speech interfaces are systems that enable speech communication even when an
acoustic signal is unavailable. Over the last years, public interest in such interfaces has …

Recognizing emotions from whispered speech based on acoustic feature transfer learning

J Deng, S Frühholz, Z Zhang, B Schuller - IEEE Access, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Whispered speech, as an alternative speaking style for normal phonated (non-whispered)
speech, has received little attention in speech emotion recognition. Currently, speech …

Taylor‐AMS features and deep convolutional neural network for converting nonaudible murmur to normal speech

T Rajesh Kumar, GR Suresh… - Computational …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Communication becomes effective when the speech signal arrives with the profound
characteristics. This insisted the researchers to develop an automatic system of recognizing …

Direct conversion from facial myoelectric signals to speech using deep neural networks

L Diener, M Janke, T Schultz - 2015 International Joint …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper presents our first results using Deep Neural Networks for surface
electromyographic (EMG) speech synthesis. The proposed approach enables a direct …

[PDF][PDF] Whispered Speech to Neutral Speech Conversion Using Bidirectional LSTMs.

GN Meenakshi, PK Ghosh - Interspeech, 2018 - isca-archive.org
We propose a bidirectional long short-term memory (BLSTM) based whispered speech to
neutral speech conversion system that employs the STRAIGHT speech synthesizer. We use …

Vocal effort based speaking style conversion using vocoder features and parallel learning

S Seshadri, L Juvela, O Räsänen, P Alku - IEEE Access, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Speaking style conversion (SSC) is the technology of converting natural speech signals from
one style to another. In this study, we aim to provide a general SSC system for converting …

Effectiveness of cross-domain architectures for whisper-to-normal speech conversion

M Parmar, S Doshi, NJ Shah, M Patel… - 2019 27th European …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Though whisper is a typical way of natural speech communication, it is different from normal
speech wrt to speech production and perception perspective. Recently, authors have …

Cycle-consistent adversarial networks for non-parallel vocal effort based speaking style conversion

S Seshadri, L Juvela, J Yamagishi… - ICASSP 2019-2019 …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Speaking style conversion (SSC) is the technology of converting natural speech signals from
one style to another. In this study, we propose the use of cycle-consistent adversarial …

Speech enhancement approach for body-conducted unvoiced speech based on Taylor–Boltzmann machines trained DNN

C Karthikeyan, TR Kumar, DV Babu, M Baskar… - Computer Speech & …, 2023 - Elsevier
Communication becomes effectual while the verbal communication signal reaches the
destination with profound characteristics. An application based on human voice attracts the …

A novel attention-guided generative adversarial network for whisper-to-normal speech conversion

T Gao, Q Pan, J Zhou, H Wang, L Tao, HK Kwan - Cognitive Computation, 2023 - Springer
Whispered speech is a special voicing style of speech that is employed publicly to protect
speech information. It is also the primary pronunciation form for aphonic individuals with …