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      Listening to Laryngectomees: A study of Intelligibility and Self-reportedListening Effort of Spanish Oesophageal Speech 

      Raman, Sneha; Hernáez Rioja, Inmaculada ORCID; Navas Cordón, Eva ORCID; Serrano García, Luis (International Speech Communication Association, 2018-11-23)
      Oesophageal speakers face a multitude of challenges, such asdifficulty in basic everyday communication and inability to in-teract with digital voice assistants. We aim to quantify the diffi-culty involved in understanding ...
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      LSTM based voice conversion for laryngectomees 

      Serrano García, Luis; Tavarez Arriba, David; Sarasola, Xabier; Raman, Sneha; Saratxaga Couceiro, Ibon ORCID; Navas Cordón, Eva ORCID; Hernáez Rioja, Inmaculada ORCID (International Speech Communication Association, 2018-11-23)
      This paper describes a voice conversion system designed withthe aim of improving the intelligibility and pleasantness of oe-sophageal voices. Two different systems have been built, oneto transform the spectral magnitude ...
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      The observation likelihood of silence: analysis and prospects for VAD applications 

      Odriozola Sustaeta, Igor; Hernáez Rioja, Inmaculada ORCID; Navas Cordón, Eva ORCID; Serrano García, Luis; Sánchez de la Fuente, Jon ORCID (International Speech Communication Association, 2018-11-23)
      This paper shows a research on the behaviour of the observa-tion likelihoods generated by the central state of asilenceHMM(Hidden Markov Model) trained for Automatic Speech Recog-nition (ASR) using cepstral mean and variance ...