Voice Technologies For Speech Reconstruction And Enhancement

The Book Explores Ways To Reconstruct And Enhance Speech That Is Compromised By Various Neuro-motor Disorders - Collectively Known As Dysarthria. The Authors Address Some Of The Extant Lacunae In Speech Research Of Dysarthric Conditions: They Show How Methods Can Improve Speaker Recognition When Speech Is Impaired Due To Developmental Or Acquired Pathologies; They Present A Novel Multi-dimensional Approach To Help The Speech System Both Assess Dysarthric Speech And To Perform Intelligibility Improvement Of The Impaired Speech; They Display Well-performing Software Solutions For Developmental And Acquired Speech Impairments, And For Vocal Injuries; And They Examine Non-acoustic Signals And Muted Nonverbal Sounds In Relation To Audible Speech Conversion.