This paper presents an automatic procedure to analyze articulatory setting in speech production using real-time magnetic resonance imaging of the moving human vocal tract. The procedure extracts frames corresponding to inter-speech pauses, speech-ready intervals and absolute rest intervals from magnetic resonance imaging sequences of read and spontaneous speech elicited from five healthy speake...

Pauses play important roles for the intelligibility and naturalness of speech. Their occurrence and duration in text reading are influenced by syntactic structures of the text as well as by physiological constraints of respiration on the part of the speaker. In contrast to sentenceand paragraph-final pauses, sentence-medial pauses are influenced by a number of factors. Analysis of Japanese news...

Listening taking over half of the learners’ time and effort (Nunan, 1998), forms a basis for acquiring much of a language. There are factors affecting listening comprehension and its perception, such as the speech rate, phonological properties of the text, the quality of the recording, the learners’ anxiety, and listening comprehension strategies (Goh, 2000; Hamouda, 2013). At the Iran Language...

A widely used method for hot forming steels and alloys, especially heavy forging, is the process of multistage forging with pauses between stages. The well-known effect which accompanies multistage hot forging is metal plasticity recovery in comparison with monotonic deformation. A method which takes into consideration the recovery of plasticity in pauses between hot deformations of a billet un...

This paper describes a method for detecting filled pauses (including word lengthening), which are one of the hesitation phenomena. This detection is important in speech dialogue systems because they play valuable roles in oral communication. Although there have been a few previous speech recognition systems handling filled pauses, they have not detected them individually and consequently could ...

A corpus of spontaneous telephone transactions between call centre operators of a pizza company and its customers is examined for disfluencies (fillers and speech repairs) with the aim of improving automatic speech recognition. From this, a subset of the customer orders is selected as a test set. An architecture is presented which allows filled pauses and repairs to be detected and corrected. A...

OBJECTIVES The aim of this study was to determine whether ticagrelor increased the risk of ventricular pauses compared with clopidogrel and whether these pauses were associated with any clinical bradycardic events in patients presenting with acute coronary syndromes. BACKGROUND Ticagrelor, an oral reversibly binding P2Y(12) inhibitor, provides more potent and consistent inhibition of platelet...

Transcription by RNA polymerase (RNAP) is interrupted by pauses that play diverse regulatory roles. Although individual pauses have been studied in vitro, the determinants of pauses in vivo and their distribution throughout the bacterial genome remain unknown. Using nascent transcript sequencing, we identified a 16-nucleotide consensus pause sequence in Escherichia coli that accounts for known ...

Syntactic and discourse boundaries are signalled by prosodic cues as well as linguistic cues in speech. We investigated whether there is a correspondence between prosodic or linguistic cues and the boundary strengths. We measured the rates of filled pauses (FPs) and conjunctions, and the durations of silent and filled pauses and conjunctions at four types of boundaries in casual presentations i...

Transcript elongation by RNA polymerase is discontinuous and interrupted by pauses that play key regulatory roles. We show here that two different classes of pause signals punctuate elongation. Class I pauses, discovered in enteric bacteria, depend on interaction of a nascent RNA structure with RNA polymerase to displace the 3' OH away from the catalytic center. Class II pauses, which may predo...