We present a perturbation model that can modify the acoustic features of neutral speech in order to synthesize focus for certain words. In doing so, we can generate expressive speech output that highlights important speech segments to attract the listener’s attention. The ultimate objective is to synthesize corrective feedback in a computer-aided pronunciation training (CAPT) system. This work ...

This paper proposes a new technique for acoustic modeling of stressed/unstressed syllables in sentence utterances of American English. Here, relative differences of acoustic features between two consecutive syllables characterizing “stressed” or “unstressed” were introduced into the HMM-based acoustic modeling. This is because syllables can be identified as stressed or unstressed only after com...

PURPOSE The role of vision in speech representation was investigated in congenitally blind speakers and sighted speakers by studying the correlates of contrastive focus, a prosodic condition in which phonemic contrasts are enhanced. It has been reported that the lips (visible articulators) are less involved in implementing the rounding feature for blind speakers. If the weight of visible gestur...

This research is based on the problem of morphological and syntactical first language interference which often overlooked in second learning. Interference problems result misunderstanding meaning words or sentences spoken by students towards used. study attempts to analyze Indonesian speaking Arabic Al-Kindy community UIN Malang, explaining factors implications learning Arabic. method uses a de...

This paper discusses the effects of oral repetition and practice in improving speech fluency for adult second language acquisition. The experiment examined the impact of practice on fluency in learning Japanese as a second language. The measures included read-aloud time and speech production time during sentence rehearsal. The results indicated gradual improvement of speech fluency as the numbe...

We present a robust approach for detecting intrinsic sentence importance in news, by training on two corpora of documentsummary pairs. When used for singledocument summarization, our approach, combined with the “beginning of document” heuristic, outperforms a state-ofthe-art summarizer and the beginning-ofarticle baseline in both automatic and manual evaluations. These results represent an impo...

A 38-year-old right-handed male with no history of speech or language problems presented with neurogenic stuttering following an ischaemic lesion of the left thalamus. He stuttered severely in propositional speech (conversation, monologue, confrontation naming, and word retrieval) but only slightly in non-propositional speech (automatic speech, sound, word and sentence repetition, and reading a...

Keelepuude märkamine kakskeelsetel lastel on keeruline: lapse raskusi põhjendatakse kakskeelsusega või kakskeelsele lapsele omast arengut peetakse keelepuudeks. Vaja objektiivseid hindamisvahendeid. Uuringu eesmärk selgitada välja lausemallid ja laused laste keeletöötlusvõimet hindava lausete järelekordamistesti jaoks. Testis sisalduvad peavad olema jõukohased kakskeelsetele lastele ning arvest...