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OwnerFrank RUDZICZ, Graeme John HIRST +3inventors
InventorsFrank RUDZICZ, Graeme John HIRST, Pascal Hubert Henri Marie VAN LIESHOUT, Graham Fraser SHEIN, Gerald Bradley PENN
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An acoustic transformation system and method. A specific embodiment is the transformation of acoustic speech signals produced by speakers with speech disabilities in order to make those utterances more intelligible to typical listeners. These modifications include the correction of tempo or rhythm, the adjustment of formant frequencies in sonorants, the removal of adjustment of aberrant voicing, the deletion of phoneme insertion errors, and the replacement of erroneously dropped phonemes. These methods may also be applied to general correction of musical or acoustic sequences.
A system for transforming an acoustic signal comprising an acoustic transformation engine operable to apply one or more transformations to the acoustic signal in accordance with one or more transformation rules configured to determine the correctness of each of one or more temporal segments of the acoustic signal.
A method for transforming an acoustic signal comprising:
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