Vocal Rehabilitation After Laryngectomy

A training-based speech regeneration approach with cascading mapping models

“…Patients reduced to whispering have generally lost their pitch generation mechanism [1] through physiological blocking of vocal cord vibrations or, in pathological cases, blocking through disease or exclusion by an operation. Typical prostheses for voice impaired patients (esophageal speech [10], transoesophageal puncture (TEP) [11], and electrolarynx devices [12]) allow patients to regain limited speaking ability but do not generate natural sounding speech; at best their sound is monotonous or robotised [13,14,15,16]. Additional drawbacks of traditional prostheses are difficulty of use and risk of infection from surgical insertion [17,18].…”

A training-based speech regeneration approach with cascading mapping models

“…Patients reduced to whispering have generally lost their pitch generation mechanism [1] through physiological blocking of vocal cord vibrations or, in pathological cases, blocking through disease or exclusion by an operation. Typical prostheses for voice impaired patients (esophageal speech [10], transoesophageal puncture (TEP) [11], and electrolarynx devices [12]) allow patients to regain limited speaking ability but do not generate natural sounding speech; at best their sound is monotonous or robotised [13,14,15,16]. Additional drawbacks of traditional prostheses are difficulty of use and risk of infection from surgical insertion [17,18].…”

Phonated speech reconstruction using twin mapping models

“…Typical prostheses for voice impaired patients (esophageal speech [10], transoesophageal puncture (TEP) [11], and electrolarynx devices [12]) allow patients to regain limited speaking ability but do not generate natural sounding speech; at best their sound is monotonous or robotised [13], [14], [15], [16]. Additional drawbacks of traditional prostheses are difficulty of use and risk of infection from surgical insertion [17], [18].…”

Reconstruction of natural sounding speech from whispers

“…A study to establish a vowel formant space for whispered speech has been carried out. Currently, various techniques such as oesophageal speech [12], tracheo-oesophageal puncture (TEP) [13], and the electrolarynx [14] are employed as speech aids by post-laryngectomised patients; but each, as described in Chapter 2, suffers from weaknesses that range from learning difficulties to clumsy usage and heightened risk of infection.…”

“…Various speech rehabilitation techniques exist such as oesophageal speech [12], tracheo-oesophageal puncture (TEP) [13], and the electrolarynx [14] (a brief review of these is presented in Section 2.2); but each suffers from weaknesses that range from learning difficulties to clumsy usage and heightened risk of infection.…”

“…The electrolarynx is a razor sized device that needs to be pressed against the side of the throat to resonate the vocal tract [14]. There are two types of electrolarynx:…”

A training-based speech regeneration approach with cascading mapping models

“…Patients reduced to whispering have generally lost their pitch generation mechanism [1] through physiological blocking of vocal cord vibrations or, in pathological cases, blocking through disease or exclusion by an operation. Typical prostheses for voice impaired patients (esophageal speech [10], transoesophageal puncture (TEP) [11], and electrolarynx devices [12]) allow patients to regain limited speaking ability but do not generate natural sounding speech; at best their sound is monotonous or robotised [13,14,15,16]. Additional drawbacks of traditional prostheses are difficulty of use and risk of infection from surgical insertion [17,18].…”

Phonated speech reconstruction using twin mapping models

“…Typical prostheses for voice impaired patients (esophageal speech [10], transoesophageal puncture (TEP) [11], and electrolarynx devices [12]) allow patients to regain limited speaking ability but do not generate natural sounding speech; at best their sound is monotonous or robotised [13], [14], [15], [16]. Additional drawbacks of traditional prostheses are difficulty of use and risk of infection from surgical insertion [17], [18].…”

Reconstruction of natural sounding speech from whispers

“…A study to establish a vowel formant space for whispered speech has been carried out. Currently, various techniques such as oesophageal speech [12], tracheo-oesophageal puncture (TEP) [13], and the electrolarynx [14] are employed as speech aids by post-laryngectomised patients; but each, as described in Chapter 2, suffers from weaknesses that range from learning difficulties to clumsy usage and heightened risk of infection.…”

“…Various speech rehabilitation techniques exist such as oesophageal speech [12], tracheo-oesophageal puncture (TEP) [13], and the electrolarynx [14] (a brief review of these is presented in Section 2.2); but each suffers from weaknesses that range from learning difficulties to clumsy usage and heightened risk of infection.…”

“…The electrolarynx is a razor sized device that needs to be pressed against the side of the throat to resonate the vocal tract [14]. There are two types of electrolarynx:…”

A training-based speech regeneration approach with cascading mapping models

“…Patients reduced to whispering have generally lost their pitch generation mechanism [1] through physiological blocking of vocal cord vibrations or, in pathological cases, blocking through disease or exclusion by an operation. Typical prostheses for voice impaired patients (esophageal speech [10], transoesophageal puncture (TEP) [11], and electrolarynx devices [12]) allow patients to regain limited speaking ability but do not generate natural sounding speech; at best their sound is monotonous or robotised [13,14,15,16]. Additional drawbacks of traditional prostheses are difficulty of use and risk of infection from surgical insertion [17,18].…”

Phonated speech reconstruction using twin mapping models

“…Typical prostheses for voice impaired patients (esophageal speech [10], transoesophageal puncture (TEP) [11], and electrolarynx devices [12]) allow patients to regain limited speaking ability but do not generate natural sounding speech; at best their sound is monotonous or robotised [13], [14], [15], [16]. Additional drawbacks of traditional prostheses are difficulty of use and risk of infection from surgical insertion [17], [18].…”

Reconstruction of natural sounding speech from whispers

“…A study to establish a vowel formant space for whispered speech has been carried out. Currently, various techniques such as oesophageal speech [12], tracheo-oesophageal puncture (TEP) [13], and the electrolarynx [14] are employed as speech aids by post-laryngectomised patients; but each, as described in Chapter 2, suffers from weaknesses that range from learning difficulties to clumsy usage and heightened risk of infection.…”

“…Various speech rehabilitation techniques exist such as oesophageal speech [12], tracheo-oesophageal puncture (TEP) [13], and the electrolarynx [14] (a brief review of these is presented in Section 2.2); but each suffers from weaknesses that range from learning difficulties to clumsy usage and heightened risk of infection.…”

“…The electrolarynx is a razor sized device that needs to be pressed against the side of the throat to resonate the vocal tract [14]. There are two types of electrolarynx:…”