Heterogeneous knowledge sources that model speech only at certain time frames are difficult to incorporate into speech recognition, given standard multimodal fusion techniques. In this work, we present a new framework for the integration of this sporadic knowledge into standard HMM-based ASR. In a first step, each knowledge source is mapped onto a logarithmic score by using a sigmoid transfer f...

stylistics is one of the literary topics that the literati and writers have had a special attention to it during the past decade. literary style is a method or a special way of expressing thoughts that the writer or the narrator tries to transfer his ideas and thoughts about the realities through selecting words, terms and specific interpretations. amir-al-moemenin has expressed his intended mo...

This paper discusses the development Mayan linguistics as an authoritative field of knowledge in Guatemala. In particular, it links missionary linguists' and Maya linguists' activities with shifting nationalist agendas from the 1920s in to the late 1980s. It is argued that during the historical and intellectual moment that linguistics becomes an authoritative epistemology, phonetic analysis fun...

In this paper, I discuss the role of phonology in the modelling of speech processing. It will be argued tha t recent models of nonlinear representa t ions in phonology should be put to use in speech processing systems (SPS). Models ol phonology aim at the reconst ruct ion of the phonological knowledge that speakers possess and utilize in speech prow cessing. The most important function of phono...

During the last decades, phonetic and phonological knowledge about the structure of speech has provided a basis for the development of computational models for speech recognition, including automatic speech recognition (ASR). Since speech sounds are highly variable, the robustness of the mapping from a speech signal to its discrete symbolic representation is one of the most difficult problems i...

This study examines the phonetic properties of lexical stress in English produced by Persian speakers learning English as a foreign language. The four most reliable phonetic correlates of English lexical stress, namely fundamental frequency, duration, intensity, and vowel quality were measured across Persian speakers’ production of the stressed and unstressed syllables of five English disyllabi...

The linguistic means of creating a language game in French advertising texts at the phonetic, lexical, word-formation, grammatical levels are investigated. Homophones and paronyms distinguished on phonetic level, stylistic tropes – figures grammatical, contamination word-formation. Cases combinations different some established.