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 …

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 …

Whisper-to-speech conversion is motivated by laryngeal disorders, in which malfunction of
the vocal folds leads to loss of voicing. Many patients with laryngeal disorders can still …

Whispering is a special pronunciation style in which the vocal cords do not vibrate.
Compared with voiced speech, whispering is noise-like because of the lack of a …

We can perceive pitch in whispered speech, although fundamental frequency (F 0) does not
exist physically or phonetically due to the lack of vocal-fold vibration. This study was carried …

This paper examines how acoustic characteristics of vowels and consonants reflect
intonational differences between polar questions and statements in Polish whispered, semi …

Novel MMSE DiscoGAN for Cross-Domain Whisper-to-Speech Conversion Page 1 Novel
MMSE DiscoGAN for Cross-Domain Whisper-to-Speech Conversion Nirmesh J. Shah, Mihir …

In this work, we propose a new feature based on formants for whispered speaker verification
(SV) task, where neutral data is used for enrollment and whispered recordings are used for …

The whispered speech is quite different from natural speech in the context of nature,
acoustic characteristics, and generation mechanism. In order to improve the robustness of …

In this paper we address the transformation of whispered speech into natural voiced speech.
Representative state-of-the-art solutions are first reviewed as well as a baseline algorithm …