Individuals are active audience members that use Internet-based social media technologies to create and negotiate social action in online spaces. Communicative informatics is the key to constructing, describing or critiquing social media. Communicative informatics is the discovery of the audience, text/image, technology, negotiated place relationships that create symbolic meaning. Four proposit...

This paper describes a development of limited domain expressive speech synthesis for the Czech language. Our current speech synthesis system is based on unit selection methods and produces high quality speech in a neutral speaking style. This work focuses on modifications made in the synthesis algorithm to integrate expressivity into generated speech. There is also introduced a listening test, ...

This paper presents PENTAtrainer2, a semi-automatic software package written as Praat plug-in integrated with Java programs, and its applications for analysis and synthesis of speech melody as communicative functions. Its core concepts are based on the Parallel Encoding and Target Approximation (PENTA) framework, the quantitative Target Approximation (qTA) model, and the simulated annealing opt...

BACKGROUND echolalia is one of the most common symptoms among the language characteristics in Autism. AIM to provide a detailed literature revision about the role of echolalia in the language development process of autistic individuals, and to discuss the use of this language feature in the speech-language clinical practice. The researches show classifications and analysis criterions of echol...

Sharing lexicon is a direct outcome of language contact situation. When two or more languages exist side-by-side while serving the communicative requirements in particular social situation, they grow an envelope and environment linguistic exchange, sharing among them becomes natural process. In speakers one are bound to incorporate items from their into satisfy communication needs. linguistical...