Innate phonetic boundaries revisited (L)

Challenging the notion of innate phonetic boundaries.

Numerous studies of infants' speech perception abilities have demonstrated that these young listeners have access to acoustic detail in the speech signal. Because these studies have used stimuli that could be described in terms of adult-defined phonetic categories, authors have concluded that infants innately recognize stimuli as members of these categories, as adults do. In fact, the predomina...

Integrating phonetic boundary discrimina

In this study, we investigate methods of (a) detecting phonetic boundaries directly from acoustics, and (b) integrating these into HMM-based speech recognition. We test the hypothesis that detecting phone boundaries may be easier using phonological features rather than phonetic or direct acoustic information. We also show how HMMs can be more attuned to the transition of phone boundaries by exp...

' CHAPTER The Limits of Phonetic Determinism in Phonology * NC Revisited

Phonetic segmentation of singing voice using MIDI and parallel speech

When analyzing singing voice signal, it is required to know the boundaries of each phonetic unit in the singing voice samples. However, due to prolonged vowels in the singing voice, it is not easy to accurately align a singing voice with the phonetic sequence of its lyrics by conventional speech recognition approach. This paper proposes a solution for the phonetic annotation of the singing voic...

Continuation tunes in two central varieties of Italian: phonetic patterns and phonological issues

This paper presents the phonetic analysis of the intonational patterns conveying the pragmatic contents of continuation and/or marking syntactic relations in Rome and Perugia Italian: data show the type and the distribution of accents and boundaries occurring in spontaneous task-oriented dialogues. Results imply considerations about issues concerning systemic, phonotactic and realizational aspe...