A Better Understanding of Esophageal Speech Excitation Source Behavior

Radhouane Bouazizi, Sofia Ben Jebara

2013

Abstract

Understanding the excitation source of the esophageal speech is a key approach for understanding the esophageal speech. In this paper, we extract the excitation source using an inverse filtering approach and we analyze it. We, for example, show some similarities with an artificial EGG signal. We also detect the closing instants in order to define cycles of opening/closing of esophagus extremity and to recognize the equivalent of glottal cycles. These cycles are classified into different types according to their characteristics. A physical explanation of the esophagus extremity behavior is systematically given at the different steps of the analysis.

References

  1. Alku, P., Story, B., and Airas, M. (2004). Evaluation of an inverse filtering technique using physical modeling of voice production. In Proc. of INTERSPEECH. pp. 497-500, Kyoto-Japan.
  2. Brown, D. H., Hilgers, F. J. M., Irish, J. C., and Balm, A. J. M. (2003). Postlaryngectomy voice rehabilitation: state of the art. In World Journal of Surgery. vol. 27, no.2, pp. 824-831.
  3. Fant, G., Liljencrants, J., and Lin, Q. (1985). A fourparameter model of glottal flow. In journal STLQPSR. vol. 4, pp. 1-13.
  4. Kounoudes, A., Naylor, P. A., Gudnason, J., and Brookes, M. (2007). Estimation of glottal closure instants in voiced speech using the dypsa algorithm. In IEEE Trans. Speech and Audio Processing. pp. 34-43.
Download


Paper Citation


in Harvard Style

Bouazizi R. and Ben Jebara S. (2013). A Better Understanding of Esophageal Speech Excitation Source Behavior . In Proceedings of the International Conference on Bio-inspired Systems and Signal Processing - Volume 1: BIOSIGNALS, (BIOSTEC 2013) ISBN 978-989-8565-36-5, pages 163-168. DOI: 10.5220/0004228301630168


in Bibtex Style

@conference{biosignals13,
author={Radhouane Bouazizi and Sofia Ben Jebara},
title={A Better Understanding of Esophageal Speech Excitation Source Behavior},
booktitle={Proceedings of the International Conference on Bio-inspired Systems and Signal Processing - Volume 1: BIOSIGNALS, (BIOSTEC 2013)},
year={2013},
pages={163-168},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0004228301630168},
isbn={978-989-8565-36-5},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the International Conference on Bio-inspired Systems and Signal Processing - Volume 1: BIOSIGNALS, (BIOSTEC 2013)
TI - A Better Understanding of Esophageal Speech Excitation Source Behavior
SN - 978-989-8565-36-5
AU - Bouazizi R.
AU - Ben Jebara S.
PY - 2013
SP - 163
EP - 168
DO - 10.5220/0004228301630168