This paper introduces a large-scale phonetically-balanced English speech corpus developed at ATR for corpus-based speech synthesis. This corpus includes a 16-hour American English speech data spoken by a professional male narrator in “reading style.” The contents of prompt sentences concern basically news articles, travel conversations, and novels. The prompt sentences were selected from huge c...

We propose sentence chunking as a way to reduce the time and memory costs of realization of long sentences. During chunking we divide the semantic representation of a sentence into smaller components which can be processed and recombined without loss of information. Our meaning representation of choice is Dependency Minimal Recursion Semantics (DMRS). We show that realizing chunks of a sentence...

Previous research has demonstrated that properties of a currently fixated word and of adjacent words influence eye movement control in reading. In contrast to such local effects, little is known about the global effects on eye movement control, for example global adjustments caused by processing difficulty of previous sentences. In the present study, participants read text passages in which voi...

Nowadays, speech is used also for communication between humans and computers, which requires conversion from to text. Nevertheless, few studies have been performed on speech-to-text in Indonesian language, most were limited the of datasets with incomplete sentences. In this study, complete sentences language using deep bidirectional long short-term memory (LSTM) algorithm. Spectrograms Mel freq...

Many parsers learn sparse class distributions over trees to model natural language. Recursive Neural Networks (RNN) use much denser representations, yet can still achieve an F-score of 92.06% for right binarized sentences up to 15 words long. We examine an RNN model by comparing it with an abstract generative probabilistic model using a Deep Belief Network (DBN). The DBN provides both an upward...

The comma is the most common form of punctuation. As such, it may have the greatest effect on the syntactic analysis of a sentence. As an isolate language, Chinese sentences have fewer cues for parsing. The clues for segmentation of a long Chinese sentence are even fewer. However, the average frequency of comma usage in Chinese is higher than other languages. The comma plays an important role i...