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Title | ||
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Development of a Real-time Bionic Voice Generation System based on Statistical Excitation Prediction |
Abstract | ||
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Despite the emergent progress in many fields of bionics, larynx amputees still lack a functional Bionic Voice source to overcome their voice disability. We have established the Pneumatic Bionic Voice (PBV) as a promising technology to generate a voice for larynx amputees. This summary provides an overview of our efforts to implement the PBV system in real-time together with a demonstration of its results. The PBV is an electronic adaptation of an old school mechanical voice source called the Pneumatic Artificial Larynx (PAL). The PAL is a non-invasive voice prosthesis, with an exceptionally high-quality voice, driven exclusively by respiration. This work proposes an approach to statistically model the PAL's voice generation mechanism from the respiration and to implement it in a real-time PBV system that larynx amputees can use to generate voice in continuous speech.
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Year | DOI | Venue |
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2019 | 10.1145/3308561.3354591 | The 21st International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility |
Keywords | Field | DocType |
laryngectomy., pal, pneumatic artificial larynx, pneumatic bionic voice, voice conversion, voice prosthesis | Computer science,Excitation,Human–computer interaction | Conference |
ISBN | Citations | PageRank |
978-1-4503-6676-2 | 0 | 0.34 |
References | Authors | |
0 | 3 | |
Name | Order | Citations | PageRank |
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| Farzaneh Ahmadi | 1 | 0 | 0.34 |
| Kobayashi, K. | 2 | 5 | 4.17 |
| Tomoki Toda | 3 | 1874 | 167.18 |