Deepfakes present an emerging threat in cyberspace. Recent developments in machine
learning make deepfakes highly believable, and very difficult to differentiate between what is …

While humans use their voice mainly for communicating information about the world,
paralinguistic cues in the voice signal convey rich dynamic information about a speaker's …

On hearing a novel voice, listeners readily form personality impressions of that speaker.
Accurate or not, these impressions are known to affect subsequent interactions; yet the …

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

Sensitivity to facial and vocal emotion is fundamental to children's social competence.
Previous research has focused on children's facial emotion recognition, and few studies …

There is information in speech sounds about the length of the vocal tract; specifically, as a
child grows, the resonators in the vocal tract grow and the formant frequencies of the vowels …

Vocal attractiveness has a profound influence on listeners—a bias known as the" what
sounds beautiful is good" vocal attractiveness stereotype [1]—with tangible impact on a …

In this paper, we investigate the effectiveness of multi-speaker training for WaveNet vocoder.
In our previous work, we have demonstrated that our proposed speaker-dependent (SD) …

Listeners exploit small interindividual variations around a generic acoustical structure to
discriminate and identify individuals from their voice—a key requirement for social …

While acoustic analysis methods have become a commodity in voice emotion research,
experiments that attempt not only to describe but to computationally manipulate expressive …