This review summarises the status of silent speech interface (SSI) research. SSIs rely on non-
acoustic biosignals generated by the human body during speech production to enable …

The development of language technologies (LTs) such as machine translation, text
analytics, and dialogue systems is essential in the current digital society, culture and …

This paper introduces current biometric technologies that can be easily used for advanced
authentication methods for remote assessment in e-learning solutions. The focus is on …

Nowadays, especially with the upswing of neural networks, speech synthesis is almost
totally data driven. The goal of this thesis is to provide methods for automatic and …

The use of technology is very important nowadays. Most of everyday activities are
documented and stored in digital form. One of those activity is recording. Activity of an …

A laryngectomee is a person whose larynx has been removed by surgery, usually due to
laryngeal cancer. After surgery, most laryngectomees are able to speak again, using …

Oesophageal speakers face a multitude of challenges, such as difficulty in basic everyday
communication and inability to interact with digital voice assistants. We aim to quantify the …

Communication is a huge challenge for oesophageal speakers, be it for interactions with
fellow humans or with digital voice assistants. We aim to quantify these communication …

The paper focuses on building a text corpus suitable for the conservation of the voices of
non-professional speakers, who are loosing their voices due to serious healthy problems …

This paper describes the development of a Slovak text-to-speech system which applies a
technique wherein speech is directly synthesized from hidden Markov models. Statistical …