It is unclear how the prosodic features in long spontaneous speech change. We focused on the F0 declination of an utterance to investigate the F0 transition by taking into consideration the length and syntactic structure of a Japanese utterance. In the case of an utterance without a strong syntactic boundary, the F0 range is fixed to a certain width, and the F0s decline toward the end of the ut...

Gaussian mixture model-universal background model (GMM UBM) supervectors are used to identify spoken Indian languages. The calculated from short-time MFCC, its first and sec derivatives. UBM builds a generalized language model, mean adaptation transforms it duration normalized language-specific GMM. Multi-class support vector machine artificial neural network classifiers labels the supervectors...

This study is part of a larger project investigating the individual and combined effects of word position, utterance length, and phonetic context on kinematic aspects of labial and mandibular movements during grammatically correct and semantically meaningful utterances. In the present study, the effects of word position and utterance length on kinematic measures of movement duration, movement e...

Pausing in speech allows a speaker to plan for the upcoming utterance, as well as to indicate to the listener finality of utterance. In this paper I examine pause patterning and IPU length in two typologically distinct Australian languages; Dalabon and Kayardild. Results show that Dalabon prefers considerably longer stretches of continuous speech than Kayardild. Preliminary findings reveal that...

Objectives: Accurate diagnosis of Persian children with Developmental Language Disorder (DLD) is regarded as a challenge for Speech and Language Pathologists (SLPs) in Iran because of the lack of formal linguistic tests that can reliably distinguish language-impaired children from Typically-Developing (TD) children. This study aimed to investigate the diagnostic accuracy of the photographic exp...

In this study, we analyzed prosodic features of accentual phrases and investigated their temporal changes to obtain cues for detecting boundaries at where turn-taking could occur in spontaneous conversations. The acoustic parameters used as prosodic features were the fundamental frequency, sound pressure level, and duration of accentual phrases in long utterance units. The results showed that t...

This paper addresses the recognition of elderly callers based on short and narrow-band utterances, which are typical for Interactive Voice Response (IVR) systems. Our study is based on 2308 short utterances from a deployed IVR application. We show that features such as speaking rate, jitter and shimmer that are considered as most meaningful ones for determining elderly users underperform when u...