In this paper, we present a methodology for combining acoustic-phonetic knowledge with statistical learning for automatic segmentation and classification of continuous speech. At present we focus on the recognition of broad classes vowel, stop, fricative, sonorant consonant and silence. Judicious use is made of 13 knowledge-based acoustic parameters (APs) and support vector machines (SVMs). It ...

This research discussed the Buginese and Javanese phonological interference factors that influenced case from students in senior high school. The method was used this qualitative research. researchers collected data with nine fricative consonants (f, v, ?, ð, s, z, ?, ?, h) by reading test, recording interview, then analyzed theory Weinreich (1979). object of Senior High School 2 East Luwu. sho...

Acoustic data are presented from a prosodic database containing data from 3 French speakers. The prosodic boundaries examined are the Utterance, the Intonational Phrase, the Accentual Phrase, and the Word. The aim is to study the interaction of coarticulatory effects with prosodic effects. The vowel /a/ before the prosodic boundary and the consonants /b d I f s 5/ after the prosodic boundary ar...

The present paper deals with the synchronic variation of labiodental and alveolar fricative phonemes in national varieties German Germany, Austria Switzerland. Our research task was to describe full range modifications these fricatives under investigation determine two conditional factors: 1) which are due positional combinatorial conditions sound realization; 2) can be taken typical German. da...

Abstract This study uses acoustic energy measures for /b, d, g/ after /f, s, ∫, l, r/ in Catalan in order to test whether postconsonantal voiced stop lenition is ruled by minimization of articulatory effort, acoustico-perceptual continuity of an ongoing prosodic constituent or some other principle of articulatory organization. Data for eight speakers reveal that lenition is more prone to operat...

In the paper ‘The symbolization of central approximants in the IPA’, Martin Ball and Joan Rahilly approach an interesting problem – the phonetic transcription of approximants other than the so-called semivowels. In the absence of special symbols in the IPA chart, they suggest that special characters should be used for the notation of approximant realizations made at the bilabial, dental, alveol...

This paper describes a speech robotic approach to articulatory synthesis. An anthropomorphic speech robot has been built, based on a real reference subject’s data. This speech robot, called the Articulotron, has a set of relevant degrees of freedom for speech articulators, jaw, tongue, lips, and larynx. The associated articulatory model has been elaborated from cineradiographic midsagittal prof...