The human singing and speech spectrum includes energy above 5 kHz. To begin an in-depth exploration of this high-frequency energy (HFE), a database of anechoic high-fidelity recordings of singers and talkers was created and analyzed. Third-octave band analysis from the long-term average spectra showed that production level (soft vs normal vs loud), production mode (singing vs speech), and phone...

DOdUNENT '4ESUNE 'Y FL Get 798 v Oshika, Aeatrice T. Phonological Rule Testing of Conversational Speech. Apr 76 15p.t; Paper presented at the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Spee and Signal4 Processing (Philadelphia; Penn ylvania, April 12-14, 1976) HF-=$0.83 HC-$1.67 lu Postage. Acoustic Phonetics; * vutational LinguiStics; Connected Diconrse; D scriptive Linguistic's; Oral Communi...

A lexical prediction system is being developed at the Department of Speech Communication and Music Acoustics to be used with our speech synthesizer (Carlson, Granstrom and Hunnicutt, 1982). It is being developed in response to the observation that some non-speaking users of the synthesizer find communication with such an aid laboriously slow. Cme user commented that the other children were gues...

Understanding the kinematics of the tongue during normal speech will provide important information both for accurate modeling of the acoustics of the vocal tract and for clinical diagnosis and enhanced treatment of persons with abnormal speech due to tongue motion impediments. Measuring tongue motion can be done using magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) which cannot provide the temporal resolution...

A model of the sensorimotor control of speech production is presented. The model is being implemented as a set of computer simulations. It converts an input sequence of discrete phonemes into quasi-continuous motor commands and a sound output. A key feature of the model is that the goals for speech movements, at least for some kinds of sounds, are regions in auditory-temporal space. The model i...

Abstract The acoustics of the Lower Chuya River area rock art landscape are analyzed through both exploration its acoustic properties and ethnographic information gathered about region. results obtained in tests undertaken area, particular at sites Kalbak-Tash I, II, Adyr-Kan, examined. They indicate that perceived loudness resulting from a natural amplification sound (strength parameter) music...

Introduction The basis of the Essex-Bristol tts intonation model lies in both linguistics and acoustics/aerodynamics. Our underlying principle is that in the human being there are physical processes intrinsic to the overall speech mechanism and that some of these processes are open to cognitive representation – such that they are able to enter into the domain of language processing. Three types...

Non-native speakers often face difficulty in pronouncing like the native speakers. This paper proposes to model pronunciation variation in non-native speaker’s speech using only acoustics models, without the need for the corpus. Variation in term of context and language will be modeled. The combination of both modeling resulted in the reduction of absolute WER as much as 16% and 6% for native V...