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Comparison of voice and audio codecs
Lúdik, Michal ; Sysel, Petr (referee) ; Míča, Ivan (advisor)
This thesis deals with description of human hearing, audio and speech codecs, description of objective measure of quality and practical comparison of codecs. Chapter about audio codecs consists of description of lossless codec FLAC and lossy codecs MP3 and Ogg Vorbis. In chapter about speech codecs is description of linear predictive coding and G.729 and OPUS codecs. Evaluation of quality consists of description of segmental signal-to- noise ratio and perceptual evaluation of quality – WSS and PESQ. Last chapter deals with description od practical part of this thesis, that is comparison of memory and time consumption of audio codecs and perceptual evaluation of speech codecs quality.
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Multimedia signal processing
Staněk, Miroslav ; Pospíšil, Radek (referee) ; Sigmund, Milan (advisor)
The aim of this thesis is creation the appropriate multimedia support for signals and system with continuous time. The understanding of this issue is very important, because the obligatory subject Signals and systems, exactly BSIS, is taught at the EST bachelor degree. The understanding is also necessary prerequisite to successful understanding next topics in other related subjects. The next part of this thesis is focused on one dimension discrete signals. Concretely, the aim of this part is a realization of software system. Designed system has some basic operations (the signal energy, the number of signal zero crossing etc.) with sound files and also some advance functions e.g. vowel seeking and separating in fluent speech. The system is divided into two main parts. The first one analyzes sound files, creates the new sound file with wanted vowel and matrices with important parameters for other processing. The second program computes with given data, which statistically evaluates in other steps. The final system can be useful for speaker recognition, his emotional status etc.
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Analysis of Parkinson's disease using segmental speech parameters
Mračko, Peter ; Mekyska, Jiří (referee) ; Smékal, Zdeněk (advisor)
This project describes design of the system for diagnosis Parkinson’s disease based on speech. Parkinson’s disease is a neurodegenerative disorder of the central nervous system. One of the symptoms of this disease is disability of motor aspects of speech, called hypokinetic dysarthria. Design of the system in this work is based on the best known segmental features such as coefficients LPC, PLP, MFCC, LPCC but also less known such as CMS, ACW and MSC. From speech records of patients affected by Parkinson’s disease and also healthy controls are calculated these coefficients, further is performed a selection process and subsequent classification. The best result, which was obtained in this project reached classification accuracy 77,19%, sensitivity 74,69% and specificity 78,95%.
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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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Estimation of formant frequencies using machine learning
Káčerová, Erika ; Galáž, Zoltán (referee) ; Mekyska, Jiří (advisor)
This Master's thesis deals with the issue of formant extraction. A system of scripts in Matlab interface is created to generate values of the first three formant frequencies from speech recordings with the use of Praat and Snack(WaveSurfer). Mel Frequency Cepstral Coefficients and Linear Predictive Coefficients are extracted from the audio files in order to be added to the database. This database is then used to train a neural network. Finally, the designed neural network is tested.
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Codec Detection from Speech
Jon, Josef ; Matějka, Pavel (referee) ; Černocký, Jan (advisor)
Tato práce se zabývá detekcí kodeků z komprimovaného řečového signálu. Cílem bylo zjistit, jaké charakteristiky rozlišují jednotlivé kodeky a následně vytvořit prostředí vhodné pro experimenty s různými typy a konfiguracemi klasifikátorů. Použity byly Support vector machines a především neuronové sítě, které byly vytvořeny pomocí nástroje Keras. Hlavním přínosem této práce je experimentální část, ve které je analyzován vliv různých parametrů neuronové sítě. Po nalezení nejvhodnější kombinace parametrů dosáhla síť přesnosti klasifikace přes 98% na testovací sadě obsahující data z 6 kodeků.
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Determining person's height from spoken utterance
Pelikán, Pavel ; Mekyska, Jiří (referee) ; Atassi, Hicham (advisor)
Diploma’s thesis is focused on determining person’s height from spoken utterance. First part of the work evaluates present situation and refers to the published studies. Knowledge gained in these studies was used in this thesis. Study with the best results according to estimated height of the speakers was chosen. The experiment realized in the chosen study was performed in this work. The system for the estimation of the height of the speakers based on the speech signal was created. This system was successfully tested by using several acoustic features on spoken utterances from TIMIT database.
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Automatic vocal-oriented recognition of human emotions
Houdek, Miroslav ; Přinosil, Jiří (referee) ; Atassi, Hicham (advisor)
This master thesis concerns with emotional states and gender recognition on the basis of speech signal analysis. We used various prosodic and cepstral features for the description of the speech signal. In the text we describe non-invasive methods for glottal pulses estimation. The described features of speech were implemented in MATLAB. For their classification we used the GMM classifier, which uses the Gaussian probability distribution for modeling a feature space. Furthermore, we constructed a system for recognition of emotional states of the speaker and a system for gender recognition from speech. We tested the success of created systems with several features on speech signal segments of various lengths and compared the results. In the last part we tested the influence of speaker and gender on the success of emotional states recognition.
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The Program simulating the mutes of brass instruments
Košař, Vojtěch ; Indrák, Michal (referee) ; Jirásek, Ondřej (advisor)
This Master’s thesis deals with the creation of a program that simulates an impact of sound mutes on the timbre of a trombone and a trumpet. The simulation in the Reaktor 6 environment is based on an analysis of this impact which compares the spectra and formant regions retrieved from the MATLAB environment. The analysis takes into account also the impact on harmonic overtones. Another part of this work is focusing on the theory of a trombone and a trumpet, their brief history, the parts they are consisting of and the principle of tone formation. In the Reaktor 6 environment there has been created also a sampler functioning as a virtual instrument for the trumpet and the trombon. The last part of the work deals with creating a simulation program with its structure and evaluation.
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