ISCA Archive Interspeech 2022
ISCA Archive Interspeech 2022

Humanizing bionic voice: interactive demonstration of aesthetic design and control factors influencing the devices assembly and waveshape engineering

Konrad Zieliński, Marek Grzelec, Martin Hagmüller

Electrolarynx is a speech aid providing voice source for people who have their larynx resected. Bionic voices (BV) extend the device capabilities by combining the biological and technical parts in a functioning communicative system. This interactive demonstration illustrates the challenges in material design and sound engineering in the domain of BV which are aimed at enriching the performance of a conversing dyad in the social context. The factors of control and aesthetics will be introduced by alaryngeal speaker presenting novel prototypes. The participants will experience the concepts in a multimodal demo, try various devices and talk with a laryngectomee.


Cite as: Zieliński, K., Grzelec, M., Hagmüller, M. (2022) Humanizing bionic voice: interactive demonstration of aesthetic design and control factors influencing the devices assembly and waveshape engineering. Proc. Interspeech 2022, 1953-1954

@inproceedings{zielinski22_interspeech,
  author={Konrad Zieliński and Marek Grzelec and Martin Hagmüller},
  title={{Humanizing bionic voice: interactive demonstration of aesthetic design and control factors influencing the devices assembly and waveshape engineering}},
  year=2022,
  booktitle={Proc. Interspeech 2022},
  pages={1953--1954},
  issn={2308-457X}
}