A FPGA-based ultrasonic voice detection platform for whisper to voice reconstruction

• Main Author: Fan, Gaofeng
• Other Authors: Goh Wooi Boon
• Format: Theses and Dissertations
• Language: English
• Published: 2013
• Subjects: DRNTU::Engineering::Computer science and engineering::Hardware::Logic design; DRNTU::Engineering::Computer science and engineering::Hardware::Input/output and data communications
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/51912
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Whisper speech is common for people in private conversion, but is also a side effect for Laryngectomy patients who have had part of, or all of their larynx removed. A novel engineering approach building upon a Code Excited Linear Prediction (CELP) codec was developed [1] to turn whispers to voice. T...