The book provides an anthology of empirical studies of speech technologies for voice reconstruction for those who have lost their natural voices due to largectomies or have severely impaired voices that require speech enhancement. Topics include the use of ASR in medical domain, speech synthesis technologies for individuals with vocal disabilities, statistical alaryngeal speech enhancement for laryngectomees, infant cry analysis and classification, voice pathology analysis and voice conversion for non-vocal speech, and analysis of shouted speech.

This book provides the reader with empirical findings on innovative signal processing approaches to detecting pathologies in infant cries, by comparing new technological approaches to standard ones. The contributors examine novel approaches to machine adaptation to dysarthric speech.

The book explores new 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 new 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...