Speech Enhancement for Disordered and Substitution Voices (2009)
Abstract / truncated to 115 words
This thesis presents methods to enhance the speech of patients with voice disorders or with substitution voices. The first method enhances speech of patients with laryngeal neoplasm. The enhancement enables a reduction of pitch and a strengthening of the harmonics of voiced segments as well as decreasing the perceived speaking effort. The need for reliable pitch mark determination on disordered and substitution voices led to the implementation of a state-space based algorithm. Its performance is comparable to a state-of-the art pitch detection algorithm but does not require post processing. A subsequent part of the thesis deals with alaryngeal speech, with a focus on Electro-Larynx (EL) speech. After investigating an EL speech production model, which takes ...
disordered speech – enhancement – electro-larynx – pitch marks
Information
- Author
- Hagmuller, Martin
- Institution
- Graz University of Technology
- Supervisor
- Publication Year
- 2009
- Upload Date
- Aug. 11, 2010
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