This paper describes our work in developing a bilingual speech recognition system using two SpeechDat databases. The bilingual aspect of this work is of particular importance in the Galician region of Spain where both languages Galician and Spanish coexist and one of the languages, the Galician one, is a minority language. Based on a global Spanish-Galician phoneme set we built a bilingual spee...

In this paper, a linguistically rule-based letter-to-sound (LTS) conversion algorithm is described for Galician language. A complete set of phonological transcription rules regarding the Galician standard variety is presented. A SAMPA computer readable phonetic alphabet for Galician is also proposed. The algorithm was implemented and tested by using CORGA text materials. The obtained experiment...

The article considers the literary treatment of emigration in Galician fiction, through a review most recent work field. It looks particular at role women (both authors and characters) relates approaches here to changes that have arisen as result migratory flows over decades. seeks show how narrative genre highly sensitive social change, has capacity identify phenomena still barely visible stat...

Authenticity is an important food quality criterion. Rapid methods for confirming authenticity and detecting adulteration are widely demanded by food producers, processors, consumers and regulatory bodies. The objective of this work was to develop a model that would confirm the authenticity of Galician-labelled honeys as Galician-produced honeys. Nine metals were determined in 42 honey samples ...

In this paper the question of whether the Phrygian mode is always associated with perceived emotional responses of negative valence is looked into. To this end, we carried out a series of experiments. Music from twomusical traditions where the Phrygian mode is very common, flamenco and Galician music, were chosen for listening tests. Our subjects were 124 children of age 4-7. Some subjects were...

On November 13, 2002, the tank ship Prestige-Nassau caused an oil spill off the coast of Galicia (northwest Spain) during a severe storm. The ship travelled first to the north and later southward, while the fuel continued to leak out. The amount of spilled oil at this point was estimated to be about 10,000 tons. The ship split in half and sunk on November 19 at the southern edge of the Galician...

the spanish turbot aquaculture sector holds a top position in the international market. thisactivity is mainly developed along the galician coast (nw spain). this article evaluates the environmentalperformance of galician turbot aquaculture according to the life cycle assessment (lca) methodology.previously, on account of the expected relevance of feed for aquaculture, marine aquafeed productio...

In this paper we show our latest developments of speech and language technology for two languages: Spanish and Galician. Special attention is devoted to the situation of this minority language: Galician, where the lack of resources puts in danger its inclusion in speech products.

the spanish turbot aquaculture sector holds a top position in the international market. thisactivity is mainly developed along the galician coast (nw spain). this article evaluates the environmentalperformance of galician turbot aquaculture according to the life cycle assessment (lca) methodology.previously, on account of the expected relevance of feed for aquaculture, marine aquafeed productio...