The automatic synthesis of realistic gestures has the ability to change fields animation, avatars, and communication agents. Although speech-driven synthetic gesture generation methods have been proposed optimized, evaluation system is still lacking. current method needs manual participation, but it inefficient in industry interference human factors. So we need a model that can construct an obj...

BACKGROUND Hyperkinetic dysarthria is characterized by abnormal involuntary movements affecting respiratory, phonatory, and articulatory structures impacting speech and deglutition. Speech-language pathologists (SLPs) play an important role in the evaluation and management of dysarthria and dysphagia. This review describes the standard clinical evaluation and treatment approaches by SLPs for ad...

This paper presents the effects of a function-based intervention bundle including a combination of teacher-directed self-recording, self-monitoring, and prompt cards to decrease inappropriate classroom talking out of a 7th grade student with an emotional/behavioral disorder. The interventions were based on functional behavior assessment that suggested that the talking out was maintained by the ...

INTRODUCTION Care-planning meetings represent a common method of needs assessment and decision-making practices in elderly care. Older people's influence is an important and required aspect of these practices. This study's objective was to describe and analyse older people's influence on care-planning meetings at home and in hospital. METHODS Ten care-planning meetings were audio-recorded in ...

In a competitive telecommunication market where price differentials have been minimized, quality of service (QoS) has become very important. Speech quality is a major dimension of perceived QoS, and the ability to monitor and design for this quality is a top priority. Traditionally, the perceived quality of speech has been measured by expensive and time-consuming subjective listening tests. Ove...

Speech sound disorders are almost always identified and described by their auditoryperceptual properties, as determined by adult listeners.Given that auditory-perceptual properties are extracted from the acoustic signal of speech, it follows that acoustic methods should be highly suited to the study of these disorders. But the capability for doing something is not the same as the necessity or e...

This work reports on the construction of a rated database of spontaneous speech produced by second language (L2) learners of English. Spontaneous speech was collected from 28 L2 speakers representing six language backgrounds and five different proficiency levels. Speech was elicited using formats similar to that of the TOEFL iBT and the Speaking Proficiency English Assessment Kit (SPEAK) test. ...

This contribution presents a new approach towards nonintrusive quality assessment of text-to-speech (TTS) signals. Perturbation measures which capture the degree of excitationspecific aperiodicity in voiced speech are investigated concerning their quality implications in synthesized speech. Based on two independent TTS databases for which formal attributebased listening tests have been conducte...

Computer-assisted pronunciation tutoring (CAPT) methods have been well-established in research and education. Common system approaches include the phonetic quality assessment, highlight problematic sections in the speech signal and usually rely on automatic speech recognition (ASR) regarding the target language L2. The contribution deals with the audiovisual CAPT system AzAR. An extensive feedb...

Abstract. In this paper, a human-robot speech interface for mobile technology is described which consists of intelligent mechanisms of human identification, speech recognition, word and command recognition, command meaning and effect analysis, command safety assessment, process supervision as well as human reaction assessment. A review of selected issues is carried out with regards to recogniti...