Up until now, several studies have shown that a speech interface system giving verbal suggestions with beeping sounds that decrease in pitch conveyed a low system confidence level to users intuitively, and these beeping sounds were named “artificial subtle expressions” (ASEs). However, all participants in these studies were only Japanese, so if the participants’ mother tongue has different sens...

Speech perception is known to be influenced by listeners' expectations of the speaker. This paper tests whether the demographic makeup of individuals' communities can influence their perception of foreign sounds by influencing their expectations of the language. Using online experiments with participants from all across the U.S. and matched census data on the proportion of Spanish and other for...

The research paper aims to propose a base for the measurement of oral fluency through computational analysis in English Language. speech sounds could be dissimilated into multiple variables convert decimals. proposed idea provide future researchers and scholars way analyse evaluate Oral Fluency such as words per minute, pauses, fillers, reputations syllables minute segments. tool give feedback ...

Models of cross-language perception suggest that listeners’ native language plays a significant role in perceiving another language, and propose that listeners assimilate non-native speech sounds to similar sounds in their native language. In this study, the effect of native language on the perception of Mandarin tones by Swedish learners is examined. Swedish learners participated in an identif...

Ackermann et al. mention the “acquisition of species-atypical sounds” in apes without any discussion. In our commentary, we demonstrate that these atypical sounds in chimpanzees not only include laryngeal sounds, but also have a major significance regarding the origins of language, if we consider looking at their context of use, their social properties, their relations with gestures, their late...

This paper presents a collection of annotations (tags or keywords) for a set of 2,133 environmental sounds taken from the Freesound database (www.freesound.org). The annotations are acquired through an open-ended crowd-labeling task, in which participants were asked to provide keywords for each of three sounds. The main goal of this study is to find out (i) whether it’s feasible to collect keyw...

Objective: To define the acoustic parameters and feasibility of using swallowing analysis as an auxiliary method for transition from nasogastric or orogastric tube feeding to oral breastfeeding. Methodology: A cross-sectional study, which consisted following steps: 1. Data collection: Thirty-two newborns participated in this study (16 preterm 16 full-term); 2. Clinical speech-language pathology...

Dawoodi (previously known as Domaaki) is an Indo Aryan language, spoken by very limited number of speakers in Gilgit. All are multilingual and prefer to use other languages due which moving towards language death. The present study aims develop the phonemic inventory language. For study, qualitative approach used identification sounds analysis. Quantitative carried out figure acoustic cues soun...

There are a number of expressions in Swedish and other languages, which describe the songs of different birds, e.g. the rose finch imitated as saying "Pleased to see you". These folk rhymes seem to both imitate the birds' songs and to describe some content connected to the bird. Swedish folk rhymes for the songs of different birds were analyzed in terms of sound structure and content. Imitation...

1 Introduction Language is not static, but rather varies from person to person, from place to place, and from time to time. Sound change refers to the process in which sounds in a language change across people, places, and times. Sound change is key to many fields of research. Historical and comparative linguists discover common ancestry by tracing the patterns of sound change across different ...