Reconstruction of phonated speech from whispers using formant-derived plausible pitch modulation

IV Mcloughlin, HR Sharifzadeh, SL Tan, J Li… - ACM Transactions on …, 2015 - dl.acm.org
Whispering is a natural, unphonated, secondary aspect of speech communications for most
people. However, it is the primary mechanism of communications for some speakers who …

Glottal flow synthesis for whisper-to-speech conversion

O Perrotin, IV McLoughlin - IEEE/ACM Transactions on Audio …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
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 …

[PDF][PDF] Reconstruction of continuous voiced speech from whispers.

IV McLoughlin, J Li, Y Song - INTERSPEECH, 2013 - isca-archive.org
Whispers are an important secondary vocal communications mechanism, that can be
necessary for communicating private information and which are an integral aspect of natural …

Strategies to enhance whispered speech speaker verification: A comparative analysis

MO Sarria-Paja, TH Falk - Canadian Acoustics, 2015 - jcaa.caa-aca.ca
Today, automated speech-enabled tools are increasingly being used in everyday
environments. This mobility has created new challenges for developers, who are now faced …