This study examines the effects of interacting with voice interfaces in an ingroup or an outgroup accent, for both native and non-native but competent English speakers. In a balanced, between-subjects experiment, (N = 96), ingroup and outgroup participants were randomly paired with one of two types of computer speech outputs: 1) computer speech output accent which matched the participants’ acce...

In maximum likelihood estimation of hidden Markov models for speech recognition, the criterion is to maximize the total probability across the training data for a particular speech unit, such as a word, monophone, diphone, or triphone. Since each unit model is trained separately, such a strategy can often lead to biases among decision boundaries of the generated model set. In this paper, we pro...

Handwriting character recognition is one of the most common research topics. Many approaches have applied to English characters and achieve high accuracy. However, the complexities in the language of each country are not same. Vietnamese handwriting character recognition is facing many problems, most of them come from the accent. This paper focuses on accent recognition, especially when there i...

BACKGROUND In an increasingly multicultural society, all individuals are likely to come into contact with speakers with unfamiliar accents. Recent figures suggest that such accent variation may be particularly apparent within the healthcare workforce. Research on accent variation has demonstrated that an unfamiliar speaker accent can affect listener comprehension, but the impact of speaker acce...

Oral fluency and foreign accent distinguish L2 from L1 speech production. In language testing practices, both fluency and accent are usually assessed by raters. This study investigates what exactly native raters of fluency and accent take into account when judging L2. Our aim is to explore the relationship between objectively measured temporal, segmental and suprasegmental properties of speech ...

In spoken word identification and memory tasks, stimulus variability from numerous sources impairs performance. In the current study, the influence of foreign-accent variability on spoken word identification was evaluated in two experiments. Experiment 1 used a between-subjects design to test word identification in noise in single-talker and two multiple-talker conditions: multiple talkers with...

Source Generator Based Prosodic Features John H.L. Hansen and Levent M. Arslan Robust Speech Processing Laboratory Duke University Department of Electrical Engineering Box 90291, Durham, North Carolina 27708-0291 ABSTRACT Speaker accent is an important issue in the formulation of robust speaker independent recognition systems. Knowledge gained from a reliable accent classi cation approach could...

Neurogenic foreign accent syndrome (FAS) is diagnosed when listeners perceive speech associated with motor speech impairments as foreign rather than disordered. Speakers with foreign accent syndrome typically have aphasia. It remains unclear how far language changes might contribute to the perception of foreign accent syndrome independent of accent. Judges with and without training in language ...

In this paper we investigate speech recognition performance of systems employing several accent-specific recognisers in parallel for the simultaneous recognition of multiple accents. We compare these systems with oracle systems, in which test utterances are presented to matching accent-specific recognisers, and with accent-independent systems, in which acoustic and language model training data ...

The effect of accent [pronunciation of speech sounds determined by a speaker’s regional or national location] on auditory speech comprehension has been well documented, but research is lacking as to its effects on visual speech understanding. In order to address this, the present study examined the effect of regional accent variation on speechreading performance. The aim was to determine if fam...