Voice replacement for the severely speech impaired through sub-ultrasonic excitation of the vocal tract

• Main Author: Ahmadi, Farzaneh
• Other Authors: Ian Vince McLoughlin
• Format: Theses and Dissertations
• Language: English
• Published: 2013
• Subjects: DRNTU::Engineering::Computer science and engineering::Mathematics of computing::Numerical analysis; DRNTU::Engineering::Bioengineering
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/52661
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Post-laryngectomized and speech impaired patients lose the ability to create natural pitch, and therefore seek methods to provide replacement voicing for their speech. Non-invasive pitch generation can be accomplished by coupling an artificial pitch into the vocal tract (as in the electrolarynx). Ho...