Hamid Reza Sharifzadeh

Degree:
Ph.D.

Year of Graduation:
2012

Project Title:
Reconstruction of Natural Sounding Speech from Whispers

Supervisor:
A/P Ian McLoughlin

 

Contact:
hami0003@e.ntu.edu.sg

Area(s) of Expertise:
Speech Processing, Embedded Systems, Microprocessor Programming, Image Processing

Research Keyword(s):
Bionic Voice, Laryngectomy, Speech Processing, CELP Codec

About My Research:


** Generation of Phonated Speech from Whispers
--> A novel method for natural speech reconstruction
--> Enhancing private/secure communications
--> Speech restoration for laryngectomy patients
** Modified CELP Codec
--> Design of the reconstruction algorithm based on a modified CELP codec
** Spectral Enhancement
--> Compensation for the effect of noisy excitation in whispered phonemes
** Pitch Contour Estimation
--> To achieve naturalness in the output