This paper describes the use of a rule based system for generation of pronunciation variants as a component of a speech-enabled computer aided pronunciation learning (CAPL) system. This CAPL system is a part of a computer aided recitation of the holy Qur an training system. It generates the most probable pronunciation error hypotheses that are fed to a hidden Markov model (HMM)-based speech rec...

Although haikai no renga was central to the poetic practice of haikai poets throughout the Edo period, its status within the canon of Japanese literature has been problematic since Masaoka Shiki declared that it was not bungaku. 3 Although Shiki admitted that haikai no renga texts had “literary” elements, linked verse values change over unity so his final judgment was that it could not be consi...

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Twenty 17 th century metrical psalms (ten in Welsh and ten in Scottish Gaelic) were used to investigate the suitability of the Zipf-Alekseev function for modelling verse lengths in these Celtic languages. Good fits were obtained for both languages; however, the parameter c was always negligible, hence future work might consider using the simple power function, if this proves to be the case more...

Membaca dan memahami Al-Qur‟an adalah suatu keharusan karena merupakan sumber utama bagi umat Islam dalam menjalankan kehidupan sehari- hari. Kemampuan siswa membaca masih belum maksimal. Hal ini terlihat dari yang paham tentang hukum bacaan ilmu tajwid lemah pelafasan huruf sehingga ada benar menerapkan ketika Al-Qur‟an. Penelitian bertujuan untuk mengetahui bagaimana metode tahsin digunakan o...