This paper aims to develop a methodology for forming communication skills (specifically phonetic skills) through virtual learning environment involving online platforms, tools, and mobile applications, which determines the relevance timeliness of study. The authors present their experience effective use modern resources applications in first-year students studying German as first second foreign...

We propose a system for automatically determining boundaries between phonetic segments in a speech wave given a phonetic transcription: automatic segmentation. The system uses edge detectors that are applied to various speech representations; both are optimized for each diphone or diphone class. Output from these detectors, which contains spuriously detected edges, is then combined with alterna...

The transcription of orthographic words into phonetic symbols is one the principal steps of a text-to-speech system[l]. In such a system a suitable phonetic pronunciation must be supplied, without human intervention, for every word in the text. No dictionary, however large, will contain all words, let alone proper names, technical terms and other textual items commonly found in unrestricted tex...

Previous cross-language research has indicated that some speech contrasts present greater perceptual difficulty for adult non-native listeners than others do. It has been hypothesized that phonemic, phonetic, and acoustic factors contribute to this variability. Two experiments were conducted to evaluate systematically the role of phonemic status and phonetic familiarity in the perception of non...

Nonspeech stimuli influence phonetic categorization, but effects observed so far have been limited to precursors' influence on perception of following speech. However, both preceding and following speech affect phonetic categorization. This asymmetry raises questions about whether general auditory processes play a role in context-dependent speech perception. This study tested whether the asymme...

This article provides an overview of phonological development with a focus on production patterns occurring between birth and three years, during which the majority of development occurs. General requirements of phonological acquisition are discussed briefly, followed by a description of prelinguistic vocal development, the transition to speech, and phonological characteristics of first words. ...

We describe a method for the automatic production of phonetic transcriptions in large speech corpora. First, we focus on the application of different techniques for the generation of pronunciation variants. Then, we explain the application of a speech recognition system for selecting the acoustically best matching phonetic transcription. The system is evaluated on different test sets selected f...

In this paper, we discuss the results of the IUCL system in the NLI Shared Task 2017. For our system, we explore a variety of phonetic algorithms to generate features for Native Language Identification. These features are contrasted with one of the most successful type of features in NLI, character n-grams. We find that although phonetic features do not perform as well as character n-grams alon...

Generally, a speech recognition system uses a fixed set of pronunciations according to the dictionary for training and decoding. However, even a well-defined lexicon cannot be used to support all variations in human’s pronunciation. Besides, in order to cover all possible pronunciations, the size of the dictionary would be too large to implement. Sharing gaussian densities across phonetic model...