Reconstruction of natural sounding speech from whispers
Hamid Sharifzadeh · 2011
This thesis explores reconstruction of natural sounding speech from whispers.As a broad research class, the generation of normally phonated speech from whispers can be useful in several types of application from different scientific fields ranging from communications to biomedical engineering.The primary focus of the thesis and current work is therefore to investigate appropriate solutions and algorithms for regenerating natural phonated speech from whispers.Interestingly, unlike other speech processing fields, many aspects of such reconstruction, in spite of the useful applications, have not yet been re-During the past 4 years, it was my great honour to work with and learn from the groups of distinguished mentors and outstanding fellows in Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore.Foremost, I would like to express my warmest gratitude to my supervisor, Associate Professor Ian McLoughlin, for his excellent guidance and kind support throughout my candidature.I would like to thank him for all his rewarding discussions and perceptive suggestions to my study and life.His extensive knowledge and sharp insight immensely influenced my research and his lasting encouragement helped me towards becoming a confident