Hypernasality (Tarun Pruthi )

Subject: Hypernasality
From:    Tarun Pruthi  <tpruthi@xxxxxxxx>
Date:    Tue, 26 Sep 2006 10:53:58 -0400

Hi all,

I have been working on the automatic detection of nasalization using 
knowledge based acoustic parameters for sometime. Since, one of the 
possible applications of such a system can be to detect hypernasality in 
a person's speech by just looking at the acoustics, I would like to test 
my algorithm on hypernasal speech and find out if it is able to separate 
hypernasal speakers from speakers with normal speech.

In this respect, I wanted to know if anyone knows of a standard database 
of speech recorded from normal and hypernasal speakers which I can use for 
research purposes? It would be fabulous if this database is transcribed 
and/or has nasalance scores for each of the speakers.

Thanks in advance
Tarun

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Tarun Pruthi
Graduate Research Assistant, ECE
Room 3180, A V Williams Building
University of Maryland, College Park
MD 20742 USA
Email: tpruthi@xxxxxxxx
Web: www.ece.umd.edu/~tpruthi
Ph: 301-405-1365
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