Research has confirmed that there are physical and mental benefits associated with performing horticultural activities, such as being in contact soil viewing plants. In addition, due to the rapidly increasing volume of affective neuroscience research, it is now possible understand emotional processing brain through neuroimaging. The present study was conducted explore subjects’ responses after ...

In this paper, these problems of how to model and train Mandarin prosody dependent acoustic model and how to decode input speech based on prosody dependent speech recognition system will be discussed. We use automatic prosody labeling methods to annotate syllable prosodic break type and stress type on continuous speech corpus, and utilize our proposed methods to train prosody dependent tonal sy...

This paper presents a novel approach that improves the robustness of prosody dependent language modeling by leveraging the dependence between prosody and syntax. A prosody dependent language model describes the joint probability distribution of concurrent word and prosody sequences and can be used to provide prior language constraints in a prosody dependent speech recognizer. Robust Maximum Lik...

This paper presents a prosody generation method for Chinese mandarin using the template of quantified prosodic unit and base intonation contour. This method uses the prosodic feature picked-up from the syllables in the prosody words by rule as the base unit, and integrates the prosody rules in the prosody words of Chinese mandarin and base intonation contour to achieve the prosody contours with...

Background. Affective responses (pleasure or displeasure feelings) to high-intensity interval exercise (HIIE) are dependent on the intensity of the work-interval phases, but current evidence is limited to the prescribed-based HIIE protocol (P-HIIE) in overweight and obese adults. The influence of the self-paced HIIE protocol (S-HIIE) on perceptual responses (affective, enjoyment, and perceived ...

Prosody generation is an important issue in text to speech system. We present in this paper an example-based approach for prosody generation in mandarin Chinese speech synthesis. The general idea is that we are trying to get the prosodic information from real speech examples. We first analyze given Chinese text, and form a linguistic feature vector, which describes the phonetic and lexicon char...

Most of the prosody perception tests do not capture how listeners perceive and interpret stress, tone, intonation in process listening comprehension. The current study developed English Prosodic Phonology Processing Test (EPPPT). A sample 240 Luo speaking high school students were tested using Confirmatory Factory Analysis (CFA) a multi-trait multimethod matrix. Four traits measured including w...