Flexible piezoelectric acoustic sensors and machine learning for speech processing

YH Jung, SK Hong, HS Wang, JH Han… - Advanced …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Flexible piezoelectric acoustic sensors have been developed to generate multiple sound
signals with high sensitivity, shifting the paradigm of future voice technologies. Speech …

Extended high frequency hearing and speech perception implications in adults and children

LL Hunter, BB Monson, DR Moore, S Dhar, BA Wright… - Hearing research, 2020 - Elsevier
Extended high frequencies (EHF), above 8 kHz, represent a region of the human hearing
spectrum that is generally ignored by clinicians and researchers alike. This article is a …

Artificial intelligence-based voice assessment of patients with Parkinson's disease off and on treatment: machine vs. deep-learning comparison

G Costantini, V Cesarini, P Di Leo, F Amato, A Suppa… - Sensors, 2023 - mdpi.com
Parkinson's Disease (PD) is one of the most common non-curable neurodegenerative
diseases. Diagnosis is achieved clinically on the basis of different symptoms with …

Effects of wearing face masks while using different speaking styles in noise on speech intelligibility during the COVID-19 pandemic

H Yi, A Pingsterhaus, W Song - Frontiers in Psychology, 2021 - frontiersin.org
The coronavirus pandemic has resulted in the recommended/required use of face masks in
public. The use of a face mask compromises communication, especially in the presence of …

Face-Mic: inferring live speech and speaker identity via subtle facial dynamics captured by AR/VR motion sensors

C Shi, X Xu, T Zhang, P Walker, Y Wu, J Liu… - Proceedings of the 27th …, 2021 - dl.acm.org
Augmented reality/virtual reality (AR/VR) has extended beyond 3D immersive gaming to a
broader array of applications, such as shopping, tourism, education. And recently there has …

Minimal and mild hearing loss in children: association with auditory perception, cognition, and communication problems

DR Moore, O Zobay, MA Ferguson - Ear and hearing, 2020 - journals.lww.com
Objectives:“Minimal” and “mild” hearing loss are the most common but least understood
forms of hearing loss in children. Children with better ear hearing level as low as 30 dB HL …

Surface potential tuned single active material comprised triboelectric nanogenerator for a high performance voice recognition sensor

A Babu, P Malik, N Das, D Mandal - Small, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
To fabricate a high‐performance and ultrasensitive triboelectric nanogenerator (TENG),
choice of a combination of different materials of triboelectric series is one of the prime …

Ecological cocktail party listening reveals the utility of extended high-frequency hearing

BB Monson, J Rock, A Schulz, E Hoffman, E Buss - Hearing Research, 2019 - Elsevier
A fundamental principle of neuroscience is that each species' and individual's sensory
systems are tailored to meet the demands placed upon them by their environments and …

Deep learning and machine learning-based voice analysis for the detection of COVID-19: A proposal and comparison of architectures

G Costantini, C Robotti, M Benazzo… - Knowledge-Based …, 2022 - Elsevier
Alongside the currently used nasal swab testing, the COVID-19 pandemic situation would
gain noticeable advantages from low-cost tests that are available at any-time, anywhere, at a …

UltraSE: single-channel speech enhancement using ultrasound

K Sun, X Zhang - Proceedings of the 27th annual international …, 2021 - dl.acm.org
Robust speech enhancement is considered as the holy grail of audio processing and a key
requirement for human-human and human-machine interaction. Solving this task with single …