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Use of the harmonic phase in synthetic speech detection
(INESC-ID, 2016-11-23)
This PhD dissertation was written by Jon Sanchez and supervised by Inma Hernáez and Ibon Saratxaga. It was defended at the University of the Basque Country the 5th of February 2016. The committee members were Dr. Alfonso ...
LSTM based voice conversion for laryngectomees
(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 ...
The observation likelihood of silence: analysis and prospects for VAD applications
(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 ...
Listening to Laryngectomees: A study of Intelligibility and Self-reportedListening Effort of Spanish Oesophageal Speech
(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 ...
RESTORE Project: REpair, STOrage and REhabilitation of speech
(International Speech Communication Association, 2018-11-23)
RESTORE is a project aimed to improve the quality of commu-nication for people with difficulties producing speech, provid-ing them with tools and alternative communication services. Atthe same time, progress will be made ...
Behavioural Evaluation of a Translational Animal Model of Schizophrenia
(Wiley, 2018-08)
Schizophrenia (SZ) is a chronic and disabling psychiatric disorder affecting about 1% of the population worldwide. Schizophrenia comprises positive and negative symptoms as well as cognitive deficits. Epidemiological and ...
Hydraulic Performance Of Permeable Asphalt And Picp In Swmm, Validated By Laboratory Data
(WitPress, 2019)
Traditional urban development practices disrupt the natural water cycle, increasing surface runoff
volume/velocity and reducing water quality, amongst other impacts. Those negative impacts can be
reduced adopting sustainable ...
A Differentiable Generative Adversarial Network for Open Domain Dialogue
(2019-04)
This work presents a novel methodology to train open domain neural dialogue systems within the framework of Generative Adversarial Networks with gradient-based optimization methods. We avoid the non-differentiability related ...
Can Spontaneous Emotions be Detected from Speech on TV Political Debates?
(IEEE, 2019)
Decoding emotional states from multimodal signals is an increasingly active domain, within the framework of affective computing, which aims to a better understanding of Human-Human Communication as well as to improve Human- ...
Aerosol Delivery by Inhalation Catheter and Trachea Digitalization
(Servicio Editorial de la Universidad del País Vasco/Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatearen Argitalpen Zerbitzua, 2018)
Neonatal respiratory distress syndrome (RDS) is related with high mortality and morbidity in preterm infants and the best approach to treat it is an open research field. The use of perfluorocarbons (PFC) together with ...