From the available biometric technologies, automatic speaker recognition is one of the most
convenient and accessible ones due to abundance of mobile devices equipped with a …

Recent years have witnessed notable advancements in the areas of speech, speaker and
language/dialect recognition. However, many of the emerging scientific principles appear to …

Whispered speech is a natural speaking style that despite its reduced perceptibility, still
contains relevant information regarding the intended message (ie, intelligibility), as well as …

Whisper is a common means of communication used to avoid disturbing individuals or to
exchange private information. As a vocal style, whisper would be an ideal candidate for …

This study focuses on acoustic variations in speech introduced by whispering, and proposes
several strategies to improve robustness of automatic speech recognition of whispered …

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 …

Current automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems cannot recognize whisper speech with
high accuracy. ASR systems are trained with neutral speech, which have significant acoustic …

This study proposes model and feature based strategies for automatic whispered speech
recognition. Our goal is to compensate for the mismatch between neutral-trained recognizer …

The lack of available large corpora of transcribed whispered speech is one of the major
roadblocks for development of successful whisper recognition engines. Our recent study has …

Detecting the presence or absence of speech is an important step toward building robust
speech-based interfaces. While previous studies have made progress on voice activity …