The purpose of this research conducted at the information section Sentani airport is to be able design and build an application system for converting text voice using FSA method, so that later can help inform airport. results study are a conversion built assist in informing airport, by implementing method Delphi, obtained with input output Indonesian English, contains report; used break words i...

Even though auditory training exercises for humans have been shown to improve certain perceptual skills of individuals with and without hearing loss, there is a lack of knowledge pertaining to which aspects of training are responsible for the perceptual gains, and which aspects of perception are changed. To better define how auditory training impacts brain and behavior, electroencephalography (...

This study examined production of word-final English /p/ and /b/ by subjects whose native language does not possess voiced stops in word-final position. Native Chinese adults resembled native English adults, native English children, and native Chinese children in producing /p/ with greater peak oral air pressure than /b/. However, unlike subjects in the other groups, the Chinese adults' /b/ was...

Previous research has shown that speakers do not produce all non-native phonotactic sequences with equal accuracy. Several reasons for these accuracy differences have been proposed, including markedness, analogical extension from permitted sequences, and language-independent phonetic factors. In this study, evidence from the production of unattested obstruent-initial onset clusters by English a...

The revised version of the Speech Learning Model (SLM-r) regards full-time equivalent (FTE), which involves amount L2 use during length residence (LOR) in an setting, as main factor speech acquisition. Previous studiesshowed that LOR has a significant effect on and L1 production perception but does not explain differences between populations (i.e., L1-Spanish L2-English vs. L1-English L2-Spanis...

This study examined how duration of an unstressed final syllable in English is affected by conditions in the following word: stress (trochaic/iambic), accent (accented/unaccented), and initial stop voicing (voiced/voiceless). Results showed that the unstressed final syllable was shorter before an unstressed syllable, presumably due to polysyllabic shortening—i.e., the following unstressed sylla...

The aim of this study was to investigate the applicability Internet Reciprocal Teaching (IRT) for remedial English reading instruction in EFL context, specifically purpose overcoming difficulties encountered by low-achieving Saudi students majoring at University Jeddah. treatment phase lasted three months and, due COVID-19 pandemic and resulting shift online teaching, instruments used were an p...

In HMM-based TTS, while the segmental quality of synthesized speech is quite acceptable, intonation, especially at the sentence level, tends to be somewhat bland. The maximum likelihood (ML) criterion used in HMM training and parameter trajectory generation is partially responsible for the blandness. Additionally, the F0 trajectory thus generated has a smaller dynamic range than that of natural...