Older talkers speak slower than young ones, but speech tempo has increased in the last decades. Have present-day older talkers slowed down with age or have they sped up with their community? This study investigates longitudinal patterns in articulation rate in formal speeches presented annually by Queen Beatrix between her ages 42 and 74. Her tempo decreased first and then increased in the last...

Graduate School of Engineering, Nagoya University Furo-cho 1, Chikusa-ku Nagoya 464-8603, Japan [email protected] Abstract Linear prediction of speech signal is now a common knowledge for students, engineers and researchers who are interested in speech science and technology. The first introduction of the concept to the international speech community was two presentations [6],[7] at t...

Jember society is an urban and bilingual community because they master Javanese, Madurese Indonesian. This article examines language choice forms of the in factors underlying community's language. The study was conducted through a qualitative method. Data collected questionnaire. results show that (BM) selected by generally dominant (55%). BM's family domain higher (58%) than neighboring (52%)....

Emotion in speech is an issue that has been attracting the interest of the speech community for many years, both in the context of speech synthesis as well as in automatic speech recognition (ASR). In spite of the remarkable recent progress in Large Vocabulary Recognition (LVR), it is still far behind the ultimate goal of recognising free conversational speech uttered by any speaker in any envi...