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This paper describes a text-independent speaker recognition system that achieves an equal error rate of less than 1% by combining phonetic, idiolect, and acoustic features. The phonetic system is a novel language-independent speakerrecognition system based on differences among speakers in dynamic realization of phonetic features (i.e., pronunciation), rather than spectral differences in voice q...

The phonetic alignment of the spoken utterances for speech research are commonly performed by HMM-based speech recognizers, in forced alignment mode, but the training of the phonetic segment models requires considerable amounts of annotated data. When no such material is available, a possible solution is to synthesize the same phonetic sequence and align the resulting speech signal with the spo...

The computer-assisted learning of spoken language is closely tied to automatic speech recognition (ASR) technology which, as is well known, is challenging with non-native speech. By focusing on specific phonological differences between the target and source languages of non-native speakers, pronunciation assessment can be made more reliable. The four-way contrast of Hindi stops, where voicing a...

Politeness strategies are employed cross-linguistically as a means of navigating interactions and negotiating relationships. We model the use of such strategies as kind of trust game where relationships between individuals are expressed in terms of other-regarding preferences. We demonstrate how politeness functions as a kind of currency for efficient social exchange.