Speech production can be regarded as a process where a time-varying vocal tract system
(filter) is excited by a time-varying excitation. In addition to its linguistic message, the speech …

Auditory-perceptual assessment is widely used in clinical and pedagogical practice for
speech and singing voice, yet several studies have shown poor intra-and inter-rater …

Featured Application Categorical voice assessment based on a classification algorithm that
can assist clinicians by visualizing phonation types on a 2-D voice map. Abstract For voice …

Prior studies in the automatic classification of voice quality have mainly studied the use of
the acoustic speech signal as input. Recently, a few studies have been carried out by jointly …

Phonation mode detection predicts phonation modes and their temporal boundaries in
singing and speech, holding promise for characterizing voice quality and vocal health …

In this study, we propose Mel-weighted single frequency filtering (SFF) spectrograms for
dialect identification. The spectrum derived using SFF has high spectral resolution for …

Automatic voice pathology detection is a research topic, which has gained increasing
interest recently. Although methods based on deep learning are becoming popular, the …

The major impulse-like excitation in the speech signal is due to abrupt closure of the vocal
folds, which takes place at the glottal closure instant (GCI) or epoch in each cycle. GCIs are …

Singing voice directivity for five sustained German vowels/a:/,/e:/,/i:/,/o:/,/u:/over a wide pitch
range was investigated using a multichannel microphone array with high spatial resolution …

In singing, the perceptual term “voice quality” is used to describe expressed emotions and
singing styles. In voice physiology research, specific voice qualities are discussed using the …