While humans use their voice mainly for communicating information about the world,
paralinguistic cues in the voice signal convey rich dynamic information about a speaker's …

An algorithm is proposed for estimating the band aperiodicity of speech signals, where
“aperiodicity” is defined as the power ratio between the speech signal and the aperiodic …

Purpose To determine the relative importance of acoustic parameters (fundamental
frequency [F0], formant frequencies [FFs], aperiodicity, and spectrum level [SL]) on voice …

A spectral envelope estimation algorithm is presented to achieve high-quality speech
synthesis. The concept of the algorithm is to obtain an accurate and temporally stable …

Percepts and words can be decoded from distributed neural activity measures. However, the
existence of widespread representations might conflict with the more classical notions of …

The aim of the present study was to evaluate the impact of literacy on phoneme perception. It
built on previous research by using more controlled stimuli than in former studies and by …

In the context of singing voice synthesis, expression control manipulates a set of voice
features related to a particular emotion, style, or singer. Also known as performance …

This article introduces a new set of tools based on TANDEM-STRAIGHT, a fundamental
reformulation of STRAIGHT, a speech analysis, modification and resynthesis system …

Voice morphing is a powerful tool for exploratory research and various applications. A
temporally variable multi-aspect morphing is extended to enable morphing of arbitrarily …

The voice quality (identity) of singing voices is usually fixed in each singer. To overcome this
limitation and enable singers to freely change their voice quality using signal-processing …