This paper reports the issues and results of AI Challenge: \Understanding Three Simultaneous Speeches". First, the issues of the Challenge are revisited. We emphasis the importance of information fusion of various attributes of speeches (sounds) in separating speeches from a mixture of sounds. This emphasis is supported by comparing two methods of speech separation; computational auditory scene...

This paper presents improvement of recognition of three simultaneous speeches for a humanoid robot with a pair of microphones. In such situations, sound separation and automatic speech recognition (ASR) of the separated speech are difficult, because the number of simultaneous talkers exceeds that of its microphones, the signal-to-noise ratio is quite low (around -3 dB) and noise is not stable d...

This study highlighted the value and appropriateness of Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) in examination national speeches political leaders for policy pronouncements. The purpose this was to investigate interplay among power, ideology, language mechanisms deployed discourses some notable capture reality, manipulate, persuade shape audience (citizenry) action. underscored capability discourse a...

doing researches on the arts of rhetoric and oratory which relates to meaning hunting and using it through speech structure has earned, from the ancient periods, the attention of critics and scholars in all over the world, and paying attention to coherent speeches is what can be traced in ancient iran before the arrival of islam. instructive brevities, phrases full of similes and metaphors, elo...

We propose in this work a novel acoustic phonetic study for Arabic people suffering from language disabilities and non-native learners of Arabic language to classify Arabic continuous speech to pathological or healthy and to identify phonemes that pose pronunciation problems (case of pathological speeches). The main idea can be summarized in comparing between the phonetic model reference to Ara...

A research presentation integrates slides and speech. If these two aspects do not represent the same intention, the presentation will probably fail to effectively explain the presenter’s intention. This paper focuses on the representation of the critical contents in a presentation. In an effective speech, the speaker adds more intonation and stress to emphasize the importance of the slide conte...

The objectives of this research were to recognize, interpret and discuss themes that arise out of the speeches of instructors of an undergraduate course of Nursing as guiding sources to a humanized teaching-learning experience in the light of Edgard Morin's Theory of Complexity. It is a qualitative, exploratory and analytic research. The study tried to verify principles of the paradigm of compl...