Purpose: Cochlear implants (CIs) provide reasonable levels of speech recognition quietly,
but voice pitch perception is severely impaired in CI users. The central question addressed …

This work attempts to convert a given neutral speech to a target emotional style using signal
processing techniques. Sadness and anger emotions are considered in this study. For …

In the development of the voice conversion and the emotional speech style transformation in
the text-to-speech systems, it is very important to obtain feedback information about the …

The spectrogram is a useful tool for visual quality comparison of different types of emotional
synthetic speech. This paper is focused on application of this method to evaluation of …

This paper gives an overview of the design concepts and implementation of a Hungarian
microblog reading system. Speech synthesis of such special text requires some special …

The paper addresses reflection of microintonation and spectral properties in male and
female acted emotional speech. Microintonation component of speech melody is analyzed …

This paper present a brief review on the current development for speech feature extraction
and its usage in speech transformation for emotion speech translation. The process of …

According to psychological research of emotional speech different emotions are
accompanied by different spectral noise. We control its amount by spectral flatness …

Natural sounds consist of a component at the fundamental frequency (f0) and its overtones.
Pitch is perceived at f0, even when spectral energy at f0 is missing. This missing f0, or 'virtual …

In the development of the voice conversion and personification of the text-to-speech (TTS)
systems, it is very necessary to have feedback information about the users' opinion on the …