Abstract Building voice-based Artificial Intelligence (AI) systems that can efficiently interact
with humans through speech has become plausible today due to rapid strides in efficient …

Recent years have witnessed notable advancements in the areas of speech, speaker and
language/dialect recognition. However, many of the emerging scientific principles appear to …

Talkers change the way they speak in noisy conditions. For energetic maskers, speech
production changes are relatively well-understood, but less is known about how …

In the presence of environmental noise, speakers tend to adjust their speech production in
an effort to preserve intelligible communication. The noise-induced speech adjustments …

Speech produced in the presence of noise—Lombard speech—is more intelligible in noise
than speech produced in quiet, but the origin of this advantage is poorly understood. Some …

Whisper is a common means of communication used to avoid disturbing individuals or to
exchange private information. As a vocal style, whisper would be an ideal candidate for …

In the control of skeleto-motor movement, it is well established that the less complex, or more
automatic a motor task is, the less variability and uncertainty there is in its performance. It …

This study focuses on acoustic variations in speech introduced by whispering, and proposes
several strategies to improve robustness of automatic speech recognition of whispered …

The study investigated whether properties of speech produced in noise (Lombard speech)
were more distributed (thus potentially more distinct) and/or more consistent than those from …

Adverse environments impact the performance of automatic speech recognition systems in
two ways-directly by introducing acoustic mismatch between the speech signal and acoustic …