9 papers
AutoProsody: A Prosodic Feature Extraction Tool for Indian Languages
Preethi Thinakaran, Malarvizhi Muthuramalingam, Sooriya S +4
The availability of prosodic information from speech signals is useful in a wide range of applications. However, deriving this information from speech signals can be a laborious ta…
A Feature Engineering Approach for Literary and Colloquial Tamil Speech Classification using 1D-CNN
M. Nanmalar, S. Johanan Joysingh, P. Vijayalakshmi +1
In ideal human computer interaction (HCI), the colloquial form of a language would be preferred by most users, since it is the form used in their day-to-day conversations. However,…
Development of Large Annotated Music Datasets using HMM-based Forced Viterbi Alignment
S. Johanan Joysingh, P. Vijayalakshmi, T. Nagarajan
Datasets are essential for any machine learning task. Automatic Music Transcription (AMT) is one such task, where considerable amount of data is required depending on the way the s…
Literary and Colloquial Dialect Identification for Tamil using Acoustic Features
M. Nanmalar, P. Vijayalakshmi, T. Nagarajan
The evolution and diversity of a language is evident from it's various dialects. If the various dialects are not addressed in technological advancements like automatic speech recog…
MaskCycleGAN-based Whisper to Normal Speech Conversion
K. Rohith Gupta, K. Ramnath, S. Johanan Joysingh +2
Whisper to normal speech conversion is an active area of research. Various architectures based on generative adversarial networks have been proposed in the recent past. Especially,…
Quartered Chirp Spectral Envelope for Whispered vs Normal Speech Classification
S. Johanan Joysingh, P. Vijayalakshmi, T. Nagarajan
Whispered speech as an acceptable form of human-computer interaction is gaining traction. Systems that address multiple modes of speech require a robust front-end speech classifier…