CONTEXT Although parent-child communication about sex can significantly affect children's sexual behavior, many parents do not talk to their children about sex. Qualitative research can elucidate parents' attitudes toward and experiences with communicating with their children about sex. METHODS In 2007, 16 focus groups were conducted with 131 mothers and fathers of children aged 10-12 in thre...

BACKGROUND Children with delayed speech and language development are at considerable risk for later language impairment, social and behavioural problems, and illiteracy. Early diagnosis is needed for intervention planning and prevention. However, a speech and language test for Thai children has not been available. AIMS To establish a Thai Speech and Language Test for Thai children between zer...

A speech and noise corpus dealing with the extreme conditions of the motorcycle environment is developed within the MoveOn project. Speech utterances in British English are recorded and processed approaching the issue of command and control and template driven dialog systems on the motorcycle. The major part of the corpus comprises noisy speech and environmental noise recorded on a motorcycle, ...

Is there a need to apply phonetics in speech technology development? How can phonetic thinking influence the quality of the final product (synthesised speech, speech recognition)? What happens if phonetic aspects are not used? What branches of phonetics are used, and what is to be used in speech technology? How phonetic thinking can be embedded into the development procedure of a speech technol...

The aim of the study is to investigate formation components speech readiness for school in preschool children with disorders. used research methods that allowed experimentally development readiness: cognitive, motivational and emotional. It has been established disorders all are impaired require specific training.

The majority of recent studies conclude that children's private speech development (private speech internalization) is related to and important for mathematical development and disabilities. It is far from clear, however, whether private speech internalization itself plays any causal role in the development of mathematical competence. The main concerns of the present study were whether phonolog...

This paper describes the creation of linguistically enriched aligned corpora for Catalan, Spanish and US-English for Speech-to-Speech Translation. These corpora are obtained from two diierent sources: US-English transcribed speech data and transcriptions of conversations recorded in Catalan and Spanish. After human translation, a large trilingual spontaneous speech corpus has been obtained. Thi...

This paper introduces a new speech design tool (Sesign99) that can convert monotonous synthesized speech into a variety of speech styles. As multimedia services such as games, interactive movies and WWW home pages become more popular, more attention is being focused on the creation, management, and transmission of speech messages. Although speech synthesis-by-rule has improved with recent advan...

We carried out a one-year project to build a portable speech-tospeech translation system in a new language that could run on a small portable computer. Croatian was chosen as the target language. The resulting system was tested with real users on a trip to Croatia in the spring of 2001. We describe its basic components, the methods we used to build them, initial evaluation results, and related ...