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Detecting Stress in Speech
Šoltés, Samuel ; Beneš, Karel (referee) ; Grézl, František (advisor)
Stress influences people in several ways and can lead to decrease in performance and / or critical mistakes. Stress detection in speech measures the influence of stress in speech. The goal of this thesis is to offer a closer look at the impacts of stress, choose adequate parameters of speech which would manifest these impacts, implement their estimation and compare their results. The thesis contains description of stress and its effects on humans; glottal pulse, spectrum, fundamental frequency and formants as the parameters chosen for stress estimation; design and implementation of parameter value estimation from speech signal and obtained values of given parameters on two different databases.
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Analysis of the spectra of violas with respect to their different bodies
Smola, Ondřej ; Indrák, Michal (referee) ; Jirásek, Ondřej (advisor)
This work focuses on the spectral analysis of three different violas, the modern one, the renaissance one and viola da gamba. Further the work focuses on the formant areas, resonance modes of its resonance corpus and how the resonance modes influence the tembre of the instruments. The theoretical part deals with the history of viola, acoustic-mechanical features, which influence the wood resonance. The practical part focuses on creating the graphic forms of required data needed for spectral analysis, identifying the resonance modes of the instruments and directional characteristics. The sound spectrums of all instruments are compared across the whole practical part. The practical part contains spectrograms, graphs of LPC analysis, graphs of directional radiation and table with formant frequencies of both instruments.
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The Spectrum analysis of different types of saxophones
Greiplová, Barbora ; Mojdl, Edgar (referee) ; Jirásek, Ondřej (advisor)
The bachelor thesis deals with the sound of three types of Yamaha saxophones, specifically soprano, alto and tenor saxophone. Lists the basic parameters of the instrument, how it forms the tone and how it is typical. It focuses on characteristics in its tone using spectral analysis, LPC analysis and directional characteristics. The work focuses on the common properties of saxophones as instruments, it also looks for differences between selected types of saxophones and between individual tones. The results are compared in graphs, tables and verbal evaluation.
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Spanish vowels in Czech students' interlanguage
Černikovská, Štěpánka ; Čermák, Petr (advisor) ; Zajícová, Lenka (referee) ; Skarnitzl, Radek (referee)
(English) The dissertation explores the vowel system of Czech L3 Spanish, focusing on three facets of its architecture: vowel quality (following SLM by Flege 1995, 1999, 2003), vowel quantity and vocalic sequences between words. Preliminary studies (Čechová 2013, 2014) suggest that there might be some evidence for the Mechanism of Equivalence in Czech L3 Spanish, since the vowel spaces of both languages consist of the same categories, with different phonetic realizations. Hence, the more similar the sounds are, the harder it is to capture the relevant difference, necessary to attain native-like pronunciation. Vowel quantity, being traditionally associated with the phonological feature of length in Czech (Palková 1994), is not present in Spanish, and compensating for that property, some Czech speakers tend to pronounce accented syllables with extraordinarily longer durations. Finally, vowel sequences in Spanish are usually subjetct to resyllabification, whereas Czech prefers glottalization to keep morphemes of words separated. These predictions were tested in 22 university Czech students with advanced level of Spanish (C1-C1). Subsequent analysis revealed consistent inclination towards L1 in terms of vowel quality, in less extent in vowel quantity, and although the prevalecent strategy for majority...
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Detecting Stress in Speech
Šoltés, Samuel ; Beneš, Karel (referee) ; Grézl, František (advisor)
Stress influences people in several ways and can lead to decrease in performance and / or critical mistakes. Stress detection in speech measures the influence of stress in speech. The goal of this thesis is to offer a closer look at the impacts of stress, choose adequate parameters of speech which would manifest these impacts, implement their estimation and compare their results. The thesis contains description of stress and its effects on humans; glottal pulse, spectrum, fundamental frequency and formants as the parameters chosen for stress estimation; design and implementation of parameter value estimation from speech signal and obtained values of given parameters on two different databases.
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Comparison of spectrum and directional dharacteristics of double reed instruments
Cočev, Jiří ; Buzzi, Mario (referee) ; Jirásek, Ondřej (advisor)
The Bachelor's thesis deals with analysis of the sound signals of double reed wind musical instruments. Research focuses mainly on properties of the reed and how properties of reed affects the overall sound of the instrument. For the description of the signals were used FFT, LPC, Autocorrelation and Cepstral analysis. In conclusion, the thesis offers possible future direction for the experimental research of double reed wind musical instruments.
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Detection of alcohol in speech signal
Kupka, Petr ; Holčík, Jiří (referee) ; Sigmund, Milan (advisor)
The diploma thesis Detection of Alcohol in Speech Signal first describes the effect of alcohol on the human body. The second part deals with ways to obtain parameters that describe the speech signal. The third part provides a brief overview of previous case studies and patents focused on the detection of alcohol in the speech signal. The fourth part presents the collected own database of voice recordings and developed software application for the analysis of intoxicated speech. The final part describes the measured changes in speech signal parameters that indicate alcohol intoxication.
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Analysis of Spectra of Electric Guitars Made of Various Materials
Zezulová, Eliška ; Musil, Jaroslav (referee) ; Jirásek, Ondřej (advisor)
Bachelor‘s thesis focuses on the spectral analysis of two electric guitars. The Cort X-6 electric guitar is used for harder genres of music. The second Fokus-H Strat guitar is more of a rock-universal type of instrument. The work deals with the spectrums of tones using various guitar pickups and analyzes them with the use of psychoacoustic measurements in the perception of timbre. It examines variations in the sound spectrum when there’s a manipulation with tone and gain controls. The measured values of the tone control are divided into thirds of the potentiometer range. The volume has been halved. The following is a look at the change of sound spectrum when using a harder plectrum. The end of the work is devoted to the difference in colors of two tones that were recorded under the same conditions. Their difference lies in the way of holding the neck of an electric guitar.
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Automatic Categorization of Unknown Words Based on Derivational Relations
Faltusová, Marie ; Dytrych, Jaroslav (referee) ; Smrž, Pavel (advisor)
This master thesis deals with the construction of a system for automatic classification of~unknown words based on derivation bonds. For this purpose, the system was designed to~extract derivative links based on electronic dictionaries and to create word-forming models from them. Based on this knowledge, it is then possible to incorporate unclassified words into existing nests formed from the obtained bonds, and their models, or create new ones. The reader will be gradually acquainted with the reasons that lead to the continuous transformation or expansion of the lexicon, the ways in which the words in~the~Czech language are derived and how to obtain information about the changes caused by this derivation process. This system builds on and extends the research of the branch of morphology in~the~project of a morphological analyzer of the Research Group of Knowledge Technologies, working at the Faculty of Information Technology of the Brno University of~Technology.
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The analysis of the clarinet spectrum from different manufacturers
Suchánek, Tomáš ; Mojdl, Edgar (referee) ; Jirásek, Ondřej (advisor)
Bachelor’s thesis focuses on spectral analysis of six B clarinets made by manufacturers Buffet Crampon, RZ Woodwind Manufacturing and Yamaha. Instruments were tested by two professional musicians with different timbral preferences and the resulting spectrum is then applied to how psychoacoustic measurements define timbre perception. Furthermore, the impact of different dynamics or reeds is discussed and significant part of analysis also describes directivity patterns of individual higher harmonics or characteristic formant areas.
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