this paper reports on a behavioral study that explores the role of culture and gender in the recognition of emotional speech in an under investigated cultural context (a collectivist society: i.e., iran). participants were asked to recognize the emotional prosody of a set of validated emotional vocal portrayals (including the five basic emotions). findings of the experiment were then compared w...

context-dependent modeling is a well-known approach to increase modeling accuracy in continuous speech recognition. the most common way to implement this approach is via triphone modeling. nevertheless, the large number of such models results in several problems in model training, whilst the robust training of such models is often hardly obtained. one approach to solve this problem is via param...

Phonetic Recognition for FaceMe! William Goldenthal, Keith Waters, Jean-Manuel Van Thong, and Oren Glickman email: fthal, waters, jmvt, [email protected] Digital Equipment Corporation Cambridge Research Laboratory One Kendall Sq., Building 700 Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139 USA ABSTRACT The goal of this work is to use phonetic recognition to drive a synthetic image with speech. Phonetic units a...

This study investigated the effects of English as foreign language (EFL) proficiency on what the authors of this study called pragmalinguistic and sociopragmatic recognition of EFL learners. To elicit the data, the study used two types of pragmatic measures: a pragmalinguistic recognition (PLR) test and a sociopragmatic recognition (SPR) test. Both tests were developed by the researchers of thi...