A vocoder-based speech synthesis system, named WORLD, was developed in an effort to
improve the sound quality of real-time applications using speech. Speech analysis …

Vocal performance degradation is a common symptom for the vast majority of Parkinson's
disease (PD) subjects, who typically follow personalized one-to-one periodic rehabilitation …

STRAIGHT, a speech analysis, modification synthesis system, is an extension of the
classical channel VOCODER that exploits the advantages of progress in information …

Nowadays, the use of mobile devices in the healthcare sector is increasing significantly.
Mobile technologies offer not only forms of communication for multimedia content (eg clinical …

We propose a model to estimate the fundamental frequency in monophonic audio, often
referred to as pitch estimation. We acknowledge the fact that obtaining ground truth …

A fundamental frequency (F0) estimator named Harvest is described. The unique points of
Harvest are that it can obtain a reliable F0 contour and reduce the error that the voiced …

The objective of this study was to investigate the effect of different extraction methods on the
fiber morphology, density, chemical composition and tensile strength of kenaf bast fiber …

This study focuses on the development of an objective, automated method to extract
clinically useful information from sustained vowel phonations in the context of Parkinson's …

This article presents comprehensive technical information about STRAIGHT and TANDEM-
STRAIGHT, a widely used speech modification tool and its successor. They share the same …

Abstract We propose Gaussian Mixture Model (GMM)-based emotional voice conversion
using spectrum and prosody features. In recent years, speech recognition and synthesis …