In this paper we present a method for defining the question set for the induction of acoustic phonetic decision trees. The method is data driven resulting in a continuous feature space in contrast to the usual categorical one. We apply the features to a multilingual speech recognition task, outperforming consistently the standard method using IPA-based characteristics. An extension to cross-lin...

In this series of behavioural experiments we investigated the effect of distraction on the maintenance of acoustic scene information in short-term memory. Stimuli are artificial acoustic 'scenes' composed of several (up to twelve) concurrent tone-pip streams ('sources'). A gap (1000 ms) is inserted partway through the 'scene'; Changes in the form of an appearance of a new source or disappearanc...

Cortical representational plasticity has been well documented after peripheral and central injuries or improvements in perceptual and motor abilities. This has led to inferences that the changes in cortical representations parallel and account for the improvement in performance during the period of skill acquisition. There have also been several examples of rapidly induced changes in cortical n...

Our acoustic to articulatory inversion method exploits an original codebook representing the articulatory space by hypercubes. The articulatory space is decomposed into regions where the articulatory-to-acoustic mapping is linear. Each region is represented by a hypercube. The inversion procedure retrieves articulatory vectors corresponding to an acoustic entry from the hypercube codebook. The ...

The photopic visual-evoked response (VER) produced by patterned stimuli was examined by changing: (1) the stimulus magnitude, (2) the contour density of the test pattern, and (3) the contour contrast. In the majority of normal subjects the VERs obtained by a grating pattern showed their maximum response at a relatively low level of stimulus magnitude. With a logarithmic increase in contour dens...

This paper is concerned with a technique for solving Volterra integral equations in the reproducing kernel Hilbert space. In contrast with the conventional reproducing kernel method, the Gram-Schmidt process is omitted here and satisfactory results are obtained.The analytical solution is represented in the form of series.An iterative method is given to obtain the approximate solution.The conver...

This paper is concerned with a technique for solving Volterra integro-dierential equationsin the reproducing kernel Hilbert space. In contrast with the conventional reproducing kernelmethod, the Gram-Schmidt process is omitted here and satisfactory results are obtained.The analytical solution is represented in the form of series. An iterative method is given toobtain the...

BACKGROUND A multimodal polymer-shelled contrast agent (CA) with target specific potential was recently developed and tested for its acoustic properties in a single element transducer setup. Since the developed polymeric CA has different chemical composition than the commercially available CAs, there is an interest to study its acoustic response when using clinical ultrasound systems. The aim o...