Towards Personalised Synthesised Voices for Individuals with Vocal Disabilities: Voice Banking and Reconstruction

Personalized Voice Synthesis through Human-in-the-Loop Coordinate Descent

This paper describes a human-in-the-loop approach to personalized voice synthesis in the absence of reference speech data from the target speaker. It is intended to help vocally disabled individuals restore their lost vo…

A Comparison of Manual and Automatic Voice Repair for Individual with Vocal Disabilities

Can Voice Assistants Sound Cute? Towards a Model of Kawaii Vocalics

The Japanese notion of "kawaii" or expressions of cuteness, vulnerability, and/or charm is a global cultural export. Work has explored kawaii-ness as a design feature and factor of user experience in the visual appearanc…

Assessing the Efficacy of Deep Learning Approaches for Facial Expression Recognition in Individuals with Intellectual Disabilities

Facial expression recognition has gained significance as a means of imparting social robots with the capacity to discern the emotional states of users. The use of social robotics includes a variety of settings, including…

Temporal Patterns of Multiple Long-Term Conditions in Individuals with Intellectual Disability Living in Wales: An Unsupervised Clustering Approach to Disease Trajectories

Identifying and understanding the co-occurrence of multiple long-term conditions (MLTC) in individuals with intellectual disabilities (ID) is vital for effective healthcare management. These individuals often face earlie…