Literature Reviews

Reviewed research papers, articles, and publications relevant to digital accessibility.

• Reconstruction of Phonated Speech from Whispers Using Formant-Derived Plausible Pitch Modulation

  Ian V. McLoughlin, Hamid Reza Sharifzadeh, Su Lim Tan, Jingjie Li, Yan Song (2015) — ACM Transactions on Accessible Computing

  This paper addresses a fundamental communication barrier for people who can only whisper due to voice impairments. While whispering is an occasional choice for most people, it is the primary—sometimes only—communication method for partial laryngectom…

  • speech technology
  • voice reconstruction
  • laryngectomy
  • voice disorders
  • whisper-to-speech
  • assistive technology
  • speech prosthesis