This work proposes a new confidence measure for evaluating text-to-speech alignment systems outputs, which is a key component for many applications, such as semi-automatic corpus anonymization, lips syncing, film dubbing, corpus preparation for speech synthesis and speech recognition acoustic models training. This confidence measure exploits deep neural networks that are trained on large corpor...

Although standard Italian is taught from primary school and widely prevalent in the media, dialects are still spoken many households all over country. This trend captured by popular video-on-demand providers such as Netflix HBO, who diversifying their offer promoting own non-English language productions via both subtitling dubbing. article analyses how variation, particularly form of dialect sl...

Abstract Today, we globally observe a sharp increase in learners’ engagement extramural (out-of-class) English (EE; Sundqvist 2009). This undoubtedly affords new opportunities for, but also challenges to, language teaching (ELT) and learning. To our knowledge, this study is the first to explore topic from cross-national perspective. Upper secondary teachers (N = 534) Austria, France (‘dubbing c...