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Showing 1 to 4 of 4 for “"Vocal Identity"”.
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Vocal schizophrenia or conscious flexibility? : owning the voice in the South African context
… in the performance context. I refer to this vocal action as habitual, unconscious accent-based speech adaptation. This examination is made considering that contemporary voice training at the Drama Department of the University of Cape Town (UCT), where the author locates, does not designate …
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Singing voice analysis/synthesis
… of performance, reflecting an individual's vocal identity. A great deal of prior research has focused on speech recognition and speaker identification, but relatively little work has been performed specifically on singing. There are significant differences between speech and singing in terms …
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Vocal analogues: A Cultural History of Technological Voice Imitation
… within mechanical and digital representations of vocality, this thesis traces the cultural history and logic of vocal imitations up to the deepfake. From the vocal analogues of the first documented mechanical speakers in the late 18<sup>th</sup> century, to the AI vocal recreation of deceased …
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Feasibility of individualised synthetic speech for children with complex communication needs in three South African languages (South African English, Afrikaans, and isiXhosa)
… A person's voice is an expression of their identity. The uniqueness of a person's voice is influenced by both their physical and social attributes. Yet, for children with complex communication needs (CCN), sometimes the only functional way to communicate is by using an augmentative and …