The notion of phonetic convergence covers all adaptations in articulatory and acoustic features towards those of a communicative partner, or in other terms an increase in segmental and suprasegmental similarity between them (Pardo 2006). Up until now most of the experiments on convergence were designed for monolingual dyads, with very few investigations of convergence in native-nonnative intera...

Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengungkapkan sebuah analisis aspek suprasegmental pada mahasiswa khususnya intonasi ketika mereka sedang menyampaikan pidato Internasional conference (ISC). Data penelitian dikumpulkan dengan mengamati rekaman video para dan wawancara yang dilakukan kepada seluruh peserta dari jurusan bahasa Inggris, kemudian dianalisis menggunakan metode kualitatif. Peserta berj...

Existing automatic speaker verification (ASV) systems perform with high accuracy when the speech signal is collected close to the mouth of the speaker (< 1 ft). However, the performance of these systems reduces significantly when speech signals are collected at a distance from the speaker (2-6 ft). The objective of this paper is to address some issues in the processing of speech signals collect...

A variant of the non-nutritive habituation/dishabituation sucking method was used to test 2-month-old English infants’ perception of languages. This method tests for the spontaneous interest of the baby to a change in the stimulus. English and Japanese were clearly discriminated. The difference between French and Japanese was equally clearly not of interest to babies using this procedure, the b...

The study connects two major topics in current speech research: foreign accentedness and speech in adverse conditions. We parallel the research in intelligibility of non-native speech, but instead of linguistic unit recognition we focus on the perception of the foreign accent strength. First, the question of type and degree of perceptual deficiencies occurring along with certain types of signal...

Prosody describes both form and function of a sentence using the suprasegmental features of speech. Prosody phenomena are explored in the domain of higher phonological constituents such as word, phonological phrase and intonational phrase. The study of prosody at the word level is called word prosody and above word level is called sentence prosody. Word Prosody describes stress pattern by compa...

Incremental speech synthesis aims at delivering the synthetic voice while the sentence is still being typed. One of the main challenges is the online estimation of the target prosody from a partial knowledge of the sentence’s syntactic structure. In the context of HMM-based speech synthesis, this typically results in missing segmental and suprasegmental features, which describe the linguistic c...

Processing dependencies in speech have traditionally been studied using a speeded classification paradigm. In this procedure, listeners have to monitor one dimension of speech (e.g. segmental detail) while another dimension (e.g. suprasegmental detail) varies. Variation in the unattended dimension has been shown to interfere with responses to the attended dimension. In the present study, the sp...

Parroting exercises in a foreign language are designed to make a student’s speech more native-like through imitation of specific native speech templates. In this paper we describe novel template-based methods for automatically estimating subjective scores for both intonation and rhythm in nonnative English. In terms of accuracy when automatically classifying a parroting speaker as a native or a...