Phonetic Recognition for FaceMe! William Goldenthal, Keith Waters, Jean-Manuel Van Thong, and Oren Glickman email: fthal, waters, jmvt, [email protected] Digital Equipment Corporation Cambridge Research Laboratory One Kendall Sq., Building 700 Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139 USA ABSTRACT The goal of this work is to use phonetic recognition to drive a synthetic image with speech. Phonetic units a...

Non-verbal communication or body messaging occurs when facial expressions, tone of voice, head and neck movements, smiling and ... affects others; which may be intentional or unintentional. Farhangi in nonverbal communication: the art of using movement and sound” defines this field as such: "Non-verbal communication is phonetic and non-phonetic messages which have been explained by other than l...

While the Out-Of-Vocabulary (OOV) problem remains a challenge for English spoken term detection tasks, it is underestimated for Chinese. This is because an Chinese OOV query term can still be matched as a sequence of Chinese characters, with each character itself being a word in the vocabulary. However, our experiments show that search accuracy levels differ significantly when a query is or is ...

A transliteration scheme from Roman (English) to Bangla can help increase the use of Bangla in essential and diverse computing areas such as word processing, Internet and mobile communication and information query and retrieval. The Bangla script’s irregular phonetic nature and its large repertoire of consonant clusters (juktakkhors) create a large gap between the pronunciation and the orthogra...

A long-standing forte of the Laboratory Phonology series has been work on phonetic implementation of phonological representations. Numerous studies in this series have elucidated the patterns of variation in the realization of phonological categories in different segmental and prosodic contexts, and such studies now provide one of the main lines of evidence about the cognitive representation of...

In this paper we present a hybrid statistical and rule-based segmentation system which takes into account phonetic variation of German. Input to the system is the orthographic representation and the speech signal of an utterance to be segmented. The output is the transcription (SAM-PA) with the highest overall likelihood and the corresponding segmentation of the speech signal. The system consis...

Speech production is highly sensitive to the prosodic organization of utterances. This paper reviews some of the ways in which articulation varies according to prosodic prominences and boundaries.

Almost any word can be a Bangali name, and the name in turn is often spelled in many different ways, all of which are considered correct and interchangeable. The reason for the spelling complication is two-fold: (1) there is a large gap between the script and pronunciation in Bangla, largely attributed to the large scale Sanskritization process that started in the 12 century and continued throu...

The interaction between pauses and the retrieval of the desired lexemes in the process of word production involves controversies that are worth investigating. The hypothesis of the present research was that certain pauses might refer to specific operations in the mental lexicon predicting the phonetic output. The temporal analysis of word retrieval was carried out in a ‘tip-of-the-tongue’ elici...