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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"Expressive speech"”.
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Characterising Performative Speech Modes via Analysis by Synthesis
… Artificial Intelligence research in performative speech, and its acoustic and perceptual properties. However, this speech domain is abstract and highly nuanced, making it highly difficult to characterise in the already complicated realm of expressive speech theories and research. This thesis …
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Expressive Modulation of Neutral Visual Speech
… work describes one such method for transforming speech animation curves between different expressive styles. Beginning with the assumption that expressive speech animation is a mix of two components, a high-frequency speech component (the content) and a much lower-frequency expressive component …
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Exposing the hidden vocal channel: Analysis of vocal expression
… and began by asking what people heard in expressive speech. To address this fundamental question, clips from Shakespearian soliloquy and from the Library of Congress Veterans Oral History Collection were presented to Mechanical Turk workers (10 per clip); and the workers were asked to …
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Speech acts and their rhetorical purposes in the Namibian parliamentary discourse, 2015-2016
… Analysis research design by identifying speech acts based on Searle’s five classifications of speech acts and explaining how they were persuasive. Three theoretical frameworks informed this study. Austin’s speech act theory contributes to the speech acts, especially performative acts …
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Efficacy of computer-based voice output communicaton intervention in persons with chronic severe aphasia
… and a male individual with no intelligible expressive speech as a consequence of a brainstem stroke participated in this study. All participants with aphasia had incurred left hemisphere damage according to history, referral, and/or participant questionnaire, and were at least 12 months post …