Literature Reviews

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

3 results found tagged voice conversion.

CLARIS: Clear and Intelligible Speech from Whispered and Dysarthric Voices

Neil Shah, Yash Sonkar, Shirish Subhash Karande, Vineet Gandhi (2026) — Proceedings of the 2026 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '26)

This CHI 2026 paper introduces CLARIS (Clear and Accessible Restoration of Impaired Speech), a compact end-to-end neural speech-to-speech restoration system designed to convert whispered speech and dysarthric speech into clear, natural, intelligible …
Individuality-Preserving Voice Conversion for Articulation Disorders Using Phoneme-Categorized Exemplars

Ryo Aihara, Tetsuya Takiguchi, Yasuo Ariki (2015) — ACM Transactions on Accessible Computing

This paper presents a voice conversion system designed to improve speech intelligibility for people with articulation disorders resulting from athetoid cerebral palsy, while critically preserving the speaker's voice individuality. Cerebral palsy affe…
Development of a Real-time Bionic Voice Generation System based on Statistical Excitation Prediction

Farzaneh Ahmadi, Kazuhiro Kobayashi, Tomoki Toda (2019) — Proceedings of the 21st International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS 2019)

This demonstration paper presents the first real-time implementation of the Pneumatic Bionic Voice (PBV) system, a voice prosthesis for people who have undergone laryngectomy — surgical removal of the larynx, typically due to advanced throat cancer. …