In this paper, we introduce certain concepts from the DevOps philosophy, and more generally from the software development lifecycle. We argue that the separation between source code and how it is built and released for distribution can be applied to speech corpora as well. We draw a distinction between the developers and maintainers of a speech corpus on one hand, and the researchers who use it...

Interlanguage pragmatics (ILP) has witnessed a growing body of research in the past two decades. One of the under-explored domains of L2 pragmatics is the role of learning strategies specifically tailored for the development of ILP knowledge. Therefore, this investigation aimed to determine the significant interlanguage pragmatic learning strategies (IPLS) used by high vs. low L2 pragmatic achi...

objectives: one of the most effective methods to describe speech disorders is the measurement of speech intelligibility. the speech intelligibility indicates the extent of acoustic signals that correctly speaker produces and hearer receives. the purpose of this study was to investigate the speech intelligibility in the persian children with down syndrome, age range was 3 to 5 years, who had spo...

BACKGROUND During speech perception, the ability to integrate auditory and visual information causes speech to sound louder and be more intelligible, and leads to quicker processing. This integration is important in early language development, and also continues to affect speech comprehension throughout the lifespan. Previous research shows that individuals with autism have difficulty integrati...

The development of natural spoken language dialog systems requires expertise in multiple domains, including speech recognition, natural spoken language understanding and generation, dialog managment and speech synthesis. In this paper I report on our experience at LIMSI in the design, development and evaluation of spoken language dialog systems for information retrieval tasks. Drawing upon our ...

Recognition of second language speech is still a challenging task even for state-of-the-art automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems. Considering that second language speech usually includes less fluent pronunciation and mispronunciation even when it is grammatically correct, we propose a novel phonetic decision tree (PDT) method considering integrated acoustic and linguistic features to deri...

The emergence of speech as a more direct means of interaction with the computers, promises the possibilities of leap-frogging into development of tomorrow’s interfaces in Indian Languages for IT to Mass. Speech recognition is one of the most challenging speech technologies, for the development of speech mode man-to-machine communication. Speech recognition is the process of converting an acoust...

This paper summarizes a theme of a conference hosted by the National Agricultural Research Organization of Uganda in 2004 to advance their institutional change agenda in support of Integrated Agricultural Research for Development. The theme is reflected in the title of this paper, and emphasized methods for diagnosis and assessments in targeting, reviewing process and – given the need to integr...

A continuing debate in language acquisition research is whether there are critical periods (CPs) in development during which the system is most responsive to environmental input. Recent advances in neurobiology provide a mechanistic explanation of CPs, with the balance between excitatory and inhibitory processes establishing the onset and molecular brakes establishing the offset of windows of p...