Due to their ability to capture attention, emotional stimuli tend to benefit from enhanced
perceptual processing, which can be helpful when such stimuli are task-relevant but …

Purpose Applying surface electromyography (sEMG) to the study of voice, speech, and
swallowing is becoming increasingly popular. An improved understanding of sEMG and …

The internal availability of silent speech serves as a translator for people with aphasia and
keeps human–machine/human interactions working under various disturbances. This paper …

Each year thousands of individuals require surgical removal of the larynx (voice box) due to
trauma or disease, and thereby require an alternative voice source or assistive device to …

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 …

Objective. Speech is among the most natural forms of human communication, thereby
offering an attractive modality for human–machine interaction through automatic speech …

Automatic speech recognition (ASR) is helpful to improve quality of life. However, the
performance of ASR degrades in the case of noisy environment, limited privacy, and speech …

Recent silent speech recognition (SSR) studies based on surface electromyography (sEMG)
have been conducted by classifying a finite number of words or phrases without sufficient …

Lip‐reading provides an effective speech communication interface for people with voice
disorders and for intuitive human–machine interactions. Existing systems are generally …

Through experience, the techniques used by professional vocalists become highly ingrained
and much of the fine muscular control needed for healthy singing is executed using well …