the seventh art has stabilized its proper place in the social and cultural level in different societies of the world. although, in this art, the picture, sound, music and movement are very important but the role of speech in the transmission of sense is undeniable. development and presentation of this art to the audience depends greatly on translation of the speech from the original language to...

This paper presents a dual approach to the study of breath sounds in singing, consisting of an acoustic analysis of breath sounds, and development of an automatic breath detection system. Previouswork on automatic breath detection were based on relatively simple features that were postulated to be relevant to the detection. In contrast, this study starts with a detailed acoustic analysis of bre...

Acoustic analysis and synthesis experiments have shown that duration and intonation patterns are the two most important prosodic features responsible for the quality of synthesized speech. In this paper a set of features are proposed which will influence the duration patterns of the sequence of the sound units. These features are derived from the results of the duration analysis. Duration analy...

OBJECTIVES Cochlear implants (CIs) have successfully provided speech perception to individuals with sensorineural hearing loss. Recent research has focused on more challenging acoustic stimuli such as music and voice emotion. The purpose of this review is to evaluate and describe sound quality in CI users with the purposes of summarizing novel findings and crucial information about how CI users...

Recently, in the language testing field, automatic speech recognition (ASR) technology has been used to automatically score speaking tests. This paper investigates the impact of audio quality on ASR-based automatic speaking assessment. Using the read speech data in the International English Speaking Test (IEST) practice test, we annotated audio quality and compared scores rated by humans, speec...

The relative magnitude of the first two harmonics of the voice source (H1*-H2*) is an important measure and is assumed to be one exponent of changes in vocal quality along a breathyto-pressed continuum. H1*-H2* is often associated with glottal open quotient (OQ) and glottal pulse skewness (as quantified by speed quotient, SQ), but may also covary with fundamental frequency (F0) and vocal intens...

Single-firm event studies play an important role in both scholarship and litigation despite the general invalidity of standard inference. We use a broad cross-section of 2000–2007 CRSP data and find that the standard approach performs poorly in terms of both Type I and Type II error rates. We discuss a simple-to-use alternative, the SQ test, based on sample quantiles of the empirical distributi...

This note reports on the Phase 1 Integration week, carried out from Jan 22nd to Jan 26th 2001. It summarizes the steps taken to achieve a fully integrated TDAQ system as well as the difficulties met and the open issues which will have to be addressed in future. NoteNumber : 162 Version : 1.0 Date : 15.3.2001 Reference :