Re: Hypernasality

[Chandan Raghava Narayan <cnarayan@xxxxxxxxx>]

I would think speech samples from the northern midwest (i.e., southeast 
Michigan, Wisconsin, etc.) might be helpful as many speakers from these 
areas are "always nasal." You might try looking at the Buckeye corpus 
(buckeyecorpus.osu.edu) from OSU.

Chandan


Tarun Pruthi wrote:

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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