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ICASSP
2008
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
2008
IEEE
We investigate several measures of voice quality (VQ) to improve tone recognition in Mandarin Chinese. We find that band energy measures such as Spectral Balance (Sluijter and va...
INTERSPEECH
2010
12 years 11 months ago
2010
It is well known that the lowest tone in Mandarin, a language without contrastive phonation, often co-occurs with laryngealization/creaky voice quality, and we provide evidence th...
NN
2004
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
2004
Springer
Abstract. Voice quality has been defined as the characteristic auditory colouring of an individual's voice, derived from a variety of laryngeal and supralaryngeal features and...
ICASSP
2008
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
2008
IEEE
In this paper we present a novel use of an acoustic Doppler sonar for multi-modal speaker identification. An ultrasonic emitter directs a 40kHz tone toward the speaker. Reflecti...
SPEECH
2011
12 years 11 months ago
2011
This paper first introduces a newly-recorded high quality Romanian speech corpus designed for speech synthesis, called “RSS”, along with Romanian front-end text processing mo...