We examine evidence for a regularity bias in the perception of sentence-level stress patterns, asking to what degree listeners perceive speech as metrically regular, with few or no occurrences of stress clash. We assess regularity through a stress perception task carried out by untrained listeners annotating transcripts of recorded speech, with sentences designed to have regular stress, and sen...

Acquiring labeled speech for low-resource languages is a difficult task in the absence of native speakers of the language. One solution to this problem involves collecting speech transcriptions from crowd workers who are foreign or non-native speakers of a given target language. From these mismatched transcriptions, one can derive probabilistic phone transcriptions that are defined over the set...

Triatoma venosa presents a restricted geographical distribution in America and is considered as a secondary vector of Chagas disease in Colombia and Ecuador. A total of 120 adult insects were collected in domestic and peridomestic habitats in an endemic area of the department of Boyacá, Colombia, in order to determine their genetic structure through morphometric and molecular techniques. The he...

The three pillars of an automatic speech recognition system are the lexicon, the language model and the acoustic model. The lexicon provides all the words that can be transcribed, associated with their pronunciation. The acoustic model provides an indication of how the phone units are pronounced, and the language model brings the knowledge of how words are linked. In modern automatic speech rec...

The production of rich multilingual speech corpus resources on a large scale is a requirement for many linguistic, phonetic and technological tasks, in both research and application domains. It is also time-consuming and therefore expensive. In particular the human component in the resource creation process is prone to inconsistencies, a situation which has frequently been documented in studies...

Due to the incompletely understood nature of prosodic stress, the implementation of an automatic transcriber is very diicult on the basis of the currently available knowledge. For this reason, a number of data driven approaches are applied to a manually annotated set of les from the OGI English Stories Corpus. The goal of this analysis is twofold. First, it aims to implement an automatic detect...

ions based ... on the perceptual equipment of the transcriber, classical phoneme theory took them as categories of phonetic description, identifiable in a language-independent way.” (Hb p. 352) Inverting this statement leads to the conclusion that L. takes the non-phone-related instrumental VOT measure as the raw data and a faithful representation of what the speaker really produces. He obvious...

Diplostephium comprises 111 neotropical species that live in high elevation habitats from Costa Rica to Chile. Primarily Andean, the genus seems to have undergone an adaptive radiation indicated by its high number of species, broad morphological variation, and diversification primarily in an ecosystem (páramo) that formed within the last 2–5 my. Internal transcriber spacer (ITS) sequences and s...

Most of the recent developments in the field of music indexing and music information retrieval are focused on western music. In this paper, we present an automatic music transcription system dedicated to Tabla a North Indian percussion instrument. Our approach is based on three main steps: firstly, the audio signal is segmented in adjacent segments where each segment represents a single stroke....

Objective This study aimed to explore the experiences of female breast cancer patients undergoing radiotherapy (RT) in a public hospital in Peshawar, Pakistan. Methods This study employed a descriptive exploratory method. A purposive sample of 14 breast cancer women undergoing RT was selected for this study. Data were collected over the period of 5 months, using a semi-structured interview gu...