Virtuální fonty, accents a přátelé

Latin Modern: Enhancing Computer Modern with accents, accents, accents

The number of (free) fonts prepared with METAFONT is surprisingly small compared, e.g., to what is available in the commercial market in other formats. Well, perhaps not so surprisingly: METAFONT generates TEX-oriented bitmap fonts which have not become popular outside the TEX world. Accepting this irksome situation as a challenge, we have prepared METAType1, a package for generating fonts in t...

Exposure to multiple accents supports infants' understanding of novel accents.

Accented speech poses a challenge for listeners, particularly those with limited knowledge of their language. In a series of studies, we explored the possibility that experience with variability, specifically the variability provided by multiple accents, would facilitate infants' comprehension of speech produced with an unfamiliar accent. 15- and 18-month-old American-English learning infants w...

Metrical Accents Do Not Create Illusory Dynamic Accents

Metrical accents, which are said to arise from perception of a beat in a rhythm, confer subjective prominence to events that fall on the beat. Does that mean the metrically accented events are perceived as physically more prominent (e.g., louder or longer) than other events? A recent study requiring participants to detect small physical changes in melodies having a subjectively imposed beat (Re...

Topic Accents on Quantifiers

ACCDIST: a metric for comparing speakers' accents

This paper introduces a new metric for the quantitative assessment of the similarity of speakers' accents. The ACCDIST metric is based on the correlation of inter-segment distance tables across speakers or groups. Basing the metric on segment similarity within a speaker ensures that it is sensitive to the speaker’s pronunciation system rather than to his or her voice characteristics. The metric...