We propose a system that is capable of improving intelligibility of speech by those with hearing impairment. We have found the speech often had problems in the intonation, the dur...
Segmenting the speech signals on the basis of time-frequency analysis is the most natural approach. Boundaries are located in places where energy of some frequency subband rapidly...
This paper describes a language/accent verification system for Portuguese, that explores different type of properties: acoustic, phonotactic and prosodic. The two-stage system is ...
We address the problem of keyword spotting in continuous speech streams when training and testing conditions can be different. We propose a keyword spotting algorithm based on spa...
Few voice-in/voice-out applications are available on the web. The problem appears to be the lack of appropriate open-source tools. More speech applications would increase the func...
Richard A. Frost, Ali Karaki, David A. Dufour, Jos...