نتایج جستجو برای: foreign accent reduction

تعداد نتایج: 572270  

2004
Philippe Boula de Mareüil Belynda Brahimi Cédric Gendrot

The general objective of this study is to clear up the relative importance of prosody in the identification of a foreign accent. The methodology we propose, based on the prosody transplantation paradigm, can be applied to different languages or language varieties. Here, it is applied to Magrhrebian-accented French: we wanted to study what is perceived when the segmental and suprasegmental chara...

2016
Kenneth Asogwa Carolina Nisenoff Jerome Okudo

Foreign Accent Syndrome (FAS) is a rare phenomenon where speech is characterized by a new accent to the patient's native language. More than 100 cases with the syndrome have been published, the majority of which were associated with observed insults of the speech center. Some other cases have been described without identifiable organic brain injury, especially in patients with psychiatric illne...

Journal: :J. Phonetics 2006
James Emil Flege David Birdsong Ellen Bialystok Molly Mack Hyekyung Sung Kimiko Tsukada

The purpose of this longitudinal study was to evaluate the influence of age (adult vs. child) and length of residence (LOR) in an L2-speaking country (3 vs. 5 years) on degree of foreign accent in a second language (L2). Korean adults and children living in North America, and age-matched groups of native English (NE) adults and children, recorded English sentences in sessions held 1.2 years apa...

2006
Chi Zhang Ji Wu Xi Xiao Zuoying Wang

In order to solve the problem of the performance decrease when state-of-art automatic speech recognition (ASR) system facing accent speech, we propose the Pronunciation Variation Model (PVM). Two approaches are proposed to construct the PVM in this paper. 6.38% and 7.78% relative error rate reduction is achieved for Shanghai and Wuhan accent mandarin, respectively. The experiment on these two t...

2004
Belynda Brahimi Philippe Boula de Mareüil Cédric Gendrot

The general objective of this study is to clear up the relative importance of prosody in the identification of a foreign accent. The methodology we propose, based on the prosody transplantation paradigm, can be applied to different languages or language varieties. Here, it is applied to Magrhrebianaccented French: we wanted to study what is perceived when the segmental and suprasegmental charac...

1996
Carlos Teixeira Isabel Trancoso António Joaquim Serralheiro

Foreign accent identification is a new challenging problem closely related to other relatively recent fields of the multilinguality area such as dialect identification and language identification. This paper describes an automatic identification system for English accents from 6 different European countries. The approach is basedon a parallel set of ergodic nets with context independent HMM uni...

2014
Yan Huang Dong Yu Chaojun Liu Yifan Gong

We propose a multi-accent deep neural network acoustic model with an accent-specific top layer and shared bottom hidden layers. The accent-specific top layer is used to model the distinct accent specific patterns. The shared bottom hidden layers allow maximum knowledge sharing between the native and the accent models. This design is particularly attractive when considering deploying such a syst...

Journal: :The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 1984
J E Flege

The five experiments presented here examine the ability of listeners to detect a foreign accent. Computer editing techniques were used to isolate progressively shorter excerpts of the English spoken by native speakers of American English and French. Native English-speaking listeners judged the speech samples in one- and two-interval forced-choiced tests. They were able to detect foreign accent ...

Journal: :Canadian Journal of Neurological Sciences / Journal Canadien des Sciences Neurologiques 2004

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