Detecting Nasal Vowels in Speech Interfaces Based on Surface Electromyography.

Nasality is a very important characteristic of several languages, European Portuguese being one of them. This paper addresses the challenge of nasality detection in surface electromyography (EMG) based speech interfaces. We explore the existence of useful information about the velum movement and als...

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Main Authors: João Freitas, António Teixeira, Samuel Silva, Catarina Oliveira, Miguel Sales Dias
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2015-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0127040