Esophageal Voice Enhancement by Modeling Radiated Pulses in Frequency Domain

Bonada J, Loscos A. Esophageal Voice Enhancement by Modeling Radiated Pulses in Frequency Domain. In: AES Convention 121. Audio Engineering Society; 2006. Paper 6952. Available from: https://aes.org/publications/elibrary-page/?id=13786

@inproceedings{Bonada2006_13786,
  author = {Bonada, Jordi and Loscos, Alex},
  title = {{Esophageal Voice Enhancement by Modeling Radiated Pulses in Frequency Domain}},
  booktitle = {AES Convention 121},
  note = {Paper 6952},
  year = {2006},
  month = oct,
  publisher = {Audio Engineering Society},
  url = {https://aes.org/publications/elibrary-page/?id=13786}
}

TY  - CPAPER
TI  - Esophageal Voice Enhancement by Modeling Radiated Pulses in Frequency Domain
AU  - Bonada, Jordi
AU  - Loscos, Alex
T2  - AES Convention 121
M1  - Paper 6952
PY  - 2006
DA  - 2006/10/06
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PB  - Audio Engineering Society
LA  - en
AB  - Although esophageal speech has demonstrated to be the most popular voice recovering method after laryngectomy surgery, it is difficult to master and shows a poor degree of intelligibility. This article proposes a new method for esophageal voice enhancement using speech digital signal processing techniques based on modeling radiated voice pulses in frequency domain. The analysis-transformation-synthesis technique creates a non-pathological spectrum for those utterances featured as voiced and filters those unvoiced. Healthy spectrum generation implies transforming the original timbre, modeling harmonic phase coupling from the spectral shape envelope, and deriving pitch from frame energy analysis. Resynthesized speech aims to improve intelligibility, minimize artificial artifacts, and acquire resemblance to patient’s pre-surgery original voice.
ER  -