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Many voice disorders induce subharmonic phonation, but voice signal analysis is currently lacking a technique to detect the presence of subharmonics reliably. Distinguishing subharmonic phonation from normal phonation is a challenging task…
Dysarthria is a speech disorder characterized by impaired intelligibility and reduced communicative effectiveness. Automatic dysarthria assessment provides a scalable, cost-effective approach for supporting the diagnosis and treatment of…
Automatic conflict detection has grown in relevance with the advent of body-worn technology, but existing metrics such as turn-taking and overlap are poor indicators of conflict in police-public interactions. Moreover, standard techniques…
Speech-based clinical tools are increasingly deployed in multilingual settings, yet whether pathological speech markers remain geometrically separable from accent variation remains unclear. Systems may misclassify healthy non-native…
In healthy-to-pathological voice conversion (H2P-VC), healthy speech is converted into pathological while preserving the identity. The paper improves on previous two-stage approach to H2P-VC where (1) speech is created first with the…
This paper presents a novel approach towards identification of human beings from the statistical analysis of their lip prints. Lip features are extracted by studying the spatial orientations of the grooves present in lip prints of…
Current computational-emotion research has focused on applying acoustic properties to analyze how emotions are perceived mathematically or used in natural language processing machine learning models. While recent interest has focused on…
Changes in speech and language are among the first signs of Parkinson's disease (PD). Thus, clinicians have tried to identify individuals with PD from their voices for years. Doctors can leverage AI-based speech assessments to spot PD…
On average the lack of biological markers causes a one year diagnostic delay to detect amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). To improve the diagnostic process an automatic voice assessment based on acoustic analysis can be used. The purpose…
The pseudo-periodicity of voiced speech can be exploited in several speech processing applications. This requires however that the precise locations of the Glottal Closure Instants (GCIs) are available. The focus of this paper is the…
Prior studies in the automatic classification of voice quality have mainly studied the use of the acoustic speech signal as input. Recently, a few studies have been carried out by jointly using both speech and neck surface accelerometer…
The modeling of speech production often relies on a source-filter approach. Although methods parameterizing the filter have nowadays reached a certain maturity, there is still a lot to be gained for several speech processing applications in…
The time domain waveform of a speech signal carries all of the auditory information. From the phonological point of view, it little can be said on the basis of the waveform itself. However, past research in mathematics, acoustics, and…
Voiced sounds involve self-sustained vocal folds oscillations due to the interaction between the airflow and the vocal folds. Common vocal folds pathologies like polyps and anatomical asymmetry degrade the mechanical vocal fold properties…
We conducted a comprehensive analysis of an Automatic Voice Disorders Detection (AVDD) system using existing voice disorder datasets with available demographic metadata. The study involved analysing system performance across various…
Acoustic-to-articulatory speech inversion could enhance automated clinical mispronunciation detection to provide detailed articulatory feedback unattainable by formant-based mispronunciation detection algorithms; however, it is unclear the…
The physical understanding of a method of detecting mammalian cancer via vocalization during a normal echo-Doppler test is provided. The backscattered ultrasound frequency in the case of a vocal humming resonating in the chest wall is…
Intent is defined for understanding spoken language in existing works. Both textual features and acoustic features involved in medical speech contain intent, which is important for symptomatic diagnosis. In this paper, we propose a medical…
Automatic assessment of dysarthria remains a highly challenging task due to high variability in acoustic signals and the limited data. Currently, research on the automatic assessment of dysarthria primarily focuses on two approaches: one…
The analysis, processing, and extraction of meaningful information from sounds all around us is the subject of the broader area of audio analytics. Audio captioning is a recent addition to the domain of audio analytics, a cross-modal…