FALA PROFESSOR

Bancos de Fala para o Português Brasileiro

Reconhecimento e síntese de fala demandam grandes quantidades de dados para aplicações comerciais. Em inglês americano, existem grandes quantidades de bancos de fala para a produção de modelos acústicos. Isto não é realidade para muitas línguas, incluindo o Português Brasileiro. Este trabalho apresenta o desenvolvimento de dois bancos de fala para reconhecimento com 248 locutores (224 sentenças...

Atividades de fala e não-fala em gagueira: estudo preliminar***** Speech and non-speech activities in stuttering: a preliminary study

Background: stuttering. Aim: to compare muscle activation in fluent and stuttering individuals during speech and non-speech tasks. Method: six adults divided in two groups: G1 three fluent individuals; G2 three stuttering individuals. Muscle activity (surface electromyography) was captured by disposable electrodes fixed in four regions. Testing situations: muscle rest tension, speech reaction t...

Winsor , Major Professor Albert Choi , Minor Professor

Professor Bahram Peimani-Fard

Bahram Peimani-Fard was born in 1941, in Yazd, Iran, where he completed his elementary, and high school education. He received his M.Sc. degree in Soil and Water Engineering from the Faculty of Agriculture, Shiraz University. Then, he was employed in the Range Improvement and Forage Supply Organization, affiliated with the Ministry of Agriculture to collaborate with Mr. Kernik, the FAO expert...

PROFESSOR KARIM SAEI

Karim Saei was born in 1910, in Mashhad, north eastern Iran, where he got his diploma. He left behind his homeland for Karaj city to study at the Faculty of Agriculture of Tehran University. He passed his course very successfully and received his B.Sc. degree in 1931 followed by a scholarship to study for 2 years at Agronomic Institute in Montpellier, France. He graduated M.Sc. with excellent g...