Recent research with skilled adult readers has consistently revealed an advantage of consonants over vowels in visual-word recognition (i.e., the so-called "consonant bias"). Nevertheless, little is known about how early in development the consonant bias emerges. This work aims to address this issue by studying the relative contribution of consonants and vowels at the early stages of visual-wor...

This article discusses the automatic recognition of Cued Speech in French based on hidden Markov models (HMMs). Cued Speech is a visual mode which, by using hand shapes in different positions and in combination with lip patterns of speech, makes all the sounds of a spoken language clearly understandable to deaf people. The aim of Cued Speech is to overcome the problems of lipreading and thus en...

This paper first provides an overview of factors that constrain ultimate attainment in adult second language (L2) pronunciation, finding that first language influence and the quantity and quality of L2 phonetic input account for much of the variation in the degree of foreign accent found across adult L2 learners. The author then evaluates current approaches to computer assisted pronunciation tr...

Recognition of handwritten characters is complex because the different shapes and numbers characters. Many character recognition strategies have been proposed for both English other major dialects. Bengali generally considered fifth most spoken local language in world. It official widely Bangladesh second among 22 posted dialects India. To improve characters, we developed a approach this study ...

In this paper, changes in acoustic characteristic of young children speech are investigated as a function of age. We examined fundamental frequency, formant frequencies and vowel durations of ten monophtongal vowels from American-English speaking children, age groups 3 to 6. In this study, we also examined the vowel pronunciation variability of young-aged children. The results show that prescho...

We have recently made some progress in our ability to explain perceptual performance by adult cochlear implant (CI) users, and this research may eventually be applicable to children. Quantitative, psychophysically-based models of vowel (Svirsky & Meyer, 1997) and consonant (Meyer, Svirsky, Castor, Falsafi & Simmons, 1997) perception generated predicted confusion matrices that were similar to ma...

The present study used the backward masking paradigm to investigate the nature and time course of phonological assembly. Two experiments were performed that tried to specify the extent to which phonological assembly is a serial process, or a process that gives special weight to consonants over vowels. Experiment 1 showed that recognition rates in a backward masking task varied as a function of ...