Chunk decomposition and assembly strategies have been found in the drawing of complex hierarchical diagrams (specifically AVOW diagrams). Analysis of 40 diagrams produced by five participants provided evidence for the strategies based on the duration of pauses between drawn elements. The strategies were initially discovered using a new visualization technique developed to allow the detailed exa...

A recognition system is reported which recognizes names spelled over the telephone with brief pauses between letters. The system uses separate neural networks to locate segment boundaries and classify letters. The letter scores are then used to search a database of names to find the best scoring name. The speaker-independent classification rate for spoken letters is 89%. The system retrieves th...

This paper describes a study in which a corpus of spoken Danish annotated with focus and topic tags was used to investigate the relation between information structure and pauses. The results show that intra-clausal pauses in the focus domain, tend to precede those words that express the property or semantic type whereby the object in focus is distinguished from other ones in the domain.

This study aims to determine the management of Habib Husein Ja'far's da'wah strategy in YouTube videos about Islamic messages. research is a qualitative with data types. The collection technique form observation and library (library research) obtained from various related things studied, literature this research. results show that used by Ja'far lecture breaks, writing pauses chatting pauses. m...

Fluency in terms of speed speech and (lack of) hesitations such as silent filled pauses (‘uhm’s) is part oral proficiency. Language assessment rubrics therefore include aspects fluency. Measuring fluency, however, highly time-consuming because the manual labour involved. The current paper aims to automatically measure L2 including pauses, both Dutch English. A revised existing script a new for ...

The intelligibility of the Output of text-to-speech Systems today is generally poorer than that of natural human speech. One way of improving the quality of eynthetic speech is to insert speech pauses at selected positions in the utterances rather more frequently than the human reader would choose to do. Pause insertion has been reported to improve intelligibility in deaf-speech [1] äs well äs ...

This paper presents a method for deciding the timing of turn-taking in spoken dialogue systems. This method uses a decision tree learned from the corpus of dialogues between human users and systems in which desirable turn-taking behaviors are annotated by hand. It utilizes a variety of attributes, such as recognition and understanding results and prosodic information. Unlike most of the existin...

The purpose of this paper is to study and analyze both the non-lexical lled pauses and intended responses in conversational spontaneous speech, and how this can be useful in both automatic speech recognition and speaker identi cation systems. Through experiments, it was found that we are able to distinguish between words and non-lexical words in spontaneous speech using prosodic features. Conse...

tree nuts, including almond (prunus dulcis) are a source of food allergens often associated with life-threatening allergic reactions in susceptible individuals. although the proteins in almonds have been biochemically characterized, relatively little has been reported regarding the identity of the allergens involved in almond sensitivity. the present study was undertaken to identify the allerge...

objectives: the presence of e.coli in fish intended for human consumption may constitute a potential danger, not only in causing disease, but also because of the possible transfer of antibiotic resistance from aquatic bacteria to those infecting humans. the objective of this study was to develop an improved pcr method based on species – specific 16 s rrna gene primers (fes, res) for detection o...