Browsing Centre for Language and Communication Studies (Scholarly Publications) by Subject "Voice quality"
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Comparison of time and frequency domain measures of the voice source
(2019)Voice source modulation is of fundamental importance in speech communication. Many parameters have been proposed to capture the characteristics of the voice, but it is not always clear how the different kinds of parameters ... -
An exploration of voice source correlates of focus
(2010)This pilot study explores how the voice source parameters vary in focally accented syllables. It examines the dynamics of the voice source parameters in an all-voiced short declarative utterance in which the focus placement ... -
GlóRí - the Glottal Research Instrument
(2014)This papers presents GlóRí - the glottal research instrument. GlóRí is a speech analysis interface which offers a flexibility and multiplicity of approaches to voice analysis. The system allows for fully automatic ... -
GlóRí - the glottal research instrument
(2014)This papers presents GlóRí - the glottal research instrument. GlóRí is a speech analysis interface which offers a flexibility and multiplicity of approaches to voice analysis. The system allows for fully automatic processing, ... -
Integrating a voice analysis-synthesis system with a TTS framework for controlling affect and speaker identity
(2021)This paper reports an experiment exploring how a voice analysis-synthesis system, GlórCáil, can be used to add expressiveness to the synthetic voice in text-to-speech (TTS) systems. This implementation focuses on the Irish ... -
The interaction of long-term voice quality with the realisation of focus
(2016)Voice quality shifts have been shown to be associated with the realisation of accent, focus and deaccentuation. Mostly, accented and focally accented syllables are reported to exhibit a tenser mode of phonation than the ... -
Perceived loudness and voice quality in affect cueing
(2009)The paper describes an auditory experiment aimed at testing whether the intrinsic loudness of a stimulus with a given voice quality influences the way in which it signals affect. Synthesised voice quality stimuli in which ... -
The perceptual effects of aliasing distortion in glottal flow modelling
(2023)When modelling the glottal flow signal in a discrete- time system, the aliasing distortion that is produced is typically ignored. The assumption is that the percep- tual effects are negligible if the sampling frequency ... -
Phonetic feature extraction for context-sensitive glottal source processing
(2014)The effectiveness of glottal source analysis is known to be dependent on the phonetic properties of its concomitant supraglottal features. Phonetic classes like nasals and fricatives are particularly problematic. Their ... -
The role of voice quality in the perception of prominence in synthetic speech
(2019)This paper explores how prominence can be modelled in speech synthesis through voice quality variation. Synthetic utterances varying in voice quality (breathy, modal, tense) were generated using a glottal source model ... -
Universal and language-specific perception of affect from voice
(2011)This paper outlines the general results of a cross-language study of perception of affect from voice. The study aims to clarify how variations in voice quality (in synthesized stimuli) can evoke different affective coloring ... -
Using phonetic feature extraction to determine optimal speech regions for maximising the effectiveness of glottal source analysis
(2013)Parameterisation of the glottal source has become increasingly useful for speech technology. For many applications it may be desirable to restrict the glottal source feature data to only speech regions where it can be ... -
Voice-to-affect mapping: Inferences on language voice baseline settings
(2017)Modulations of the voice convey affect, and the precise mapping of voice-to-affect may vary for different languages. However, affect-related modulations occur relative to the baseline affect-neutral voice, which tends to ...
