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Zdeněk Hanzlíček and Jindřich Matoušek : Voice Conservation: Towards Creating a Speech-Aid System for Total Laryngectomees . Beyond AI: Interdisciplinary Aspects of Artificial Intelligence, p. 55-59, University of West Bohemia, Pilsen, 2011.

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This paper describes the initial experiments on voice conservation of patients with laryngeal cancer in an advanced stage. The final aim is to create a speech-aid device which is able to "speak" with their former voices. Our initial work is focused on applicability of speech data from patients with an impaired vocal tract for the purposes of speech synthesis. Preliminary results indicate that appropriately selected synthesis method can successfully learn a new voice, even from speech data which is of a lower quality.

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Title: Voice Conservation: Towards Creating a Speech-Aid System for Total Laryngectomees
Author: Zdeněk Hanzlíček ; Jindřich Matoušek
Language: English
Year: 2011
Type of publication: Papers in proceedings of reviewed conferences
Title of journal or book: Beyond AI: Interdisciplinary Aspects of Artificial Intelligence
Page: 55 - 59
Publisher: University of West Bohemia, Pilsen
Date: 8 Dec 2011 - 9 Dec 2011
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speech aid, total laryngectomy, voice conservation, speech synthesis

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@INCOLLECTION{ZdenekHanzlicek_2011_VoiceConservation,
 author = {Zden\v{e}k Hanzl\'{i}\v{c}ek and Jind\v{r}ich Matou\v{s}ek},
 title = {Voice Conservation: Towards Creating a Speech-Aid System for Total Laryngectomees},
 year = {2011},
 publisher = {University of West Bohemia, Pilsen},
 journal = {Beyond AI: Interdisciplinary Aspects of Artificial Intelligence},
 pages = {55-59},
 url = {http://www.kky.zcu.cz/en/publications/ZdenekHanzlicek_2011_VoiceConservation},
}