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Showing 1 to 20 of 63 for “"Intelligibility of"”.
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On the Intelligibility of Grounding Autonomy
Metaphysical grounding has received a great deal of attention in the metaphysics literature within the last decade, offering what many see as an attractive theoretical alternative to other attempts to analyze the nature of fundamentality, e.g., dependence, supervenience, identity, conceptual …
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Predicting confusions and intelligibility of noisy speech
Current predictors of speech intelligibility are inadequate for making predictions of speech confusions caused by acoustic interference. This thesis is inspired by the need for a capability to understand and predict speech confusions caused by acoustic interference. The goal of this thesis is to …
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Ways, Proofs, and the Intelligibility of God: Thomas Aquinas’s Five Ways as Leading into the Intelligibility of an Existing God
… how to understand Thomas Aquinas’s five ways of demonstrating that God exists. Often philosophers and theologians portray Thomas as a strict Aristotelian rationalist with a strong emphasis on syllogistic epistemology. Against this view a competing existential, metaphysical, and theological …
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An Experimental Study of the Intelligibility of Alphabet Letters
… in DSpace on 2014-12-05T22:51:17Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 5805413.pdf: 3312044 bytes, checksum: 3d081099ed07cde3f032a5b43d7daa89 (MD5) Previous issue date: 1958
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Measuring the Systemic Mutual Intelligibility of Five English Speakers: A Socio -Phonological Analysis
… to help students understand how their ways of speaking differ from standard spoken English and other varieties of English, in preparation for developing appropriate speech accommodation strategies in interaction with other English speakers for effective communication.
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Acoustic characteristics and intelligibility of clear and conversational speech at the segmental level
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 1980.
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The effect of amplitude compression on the intelligibility of speech for persons with sensorineural hearing loss.
Thesis. 1978. Ph.D.--Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.
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Intelligibility of synthesized voice messages in commercial truck cab noise for normal-hearing and hearing-impaired listeners
… factors experiment was conducted to assess the intelligibility of synthesized speech under a variety of noise conditions for both hearing-impaired and normal-hearing subjects. Modified Rhyme Test stimuli were used to determine intelligibility in four speech-to-noise (S/N) ratios (0, 5, 10, and …
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The contribution of short time delayed echoes to the intelligibility of speech and its significance in architectural acoustics
The investigation covered various aspects of the effects of a single delayed echo on the intelligibility of speech and was extended to cover the case of multiple echoes which is more in line with practical conditions than a single echo. The application of the results obtained to architectural …
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The impact of self-reflection and integrated pronunciation instruction on the intelligibility of Generation Z learners of French: A mixed methods study
… to be understood by native speakers due to lack of linguistic accuracy, including pronunciation. Indeed, with increasing constraints, like overcrowded curricula (Darcy, 2018; Gordon, Darcy & Ewert, 2013; Sicola & Darcy, 2015), it has been logistically difficult for foreign language (FL) …
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Knocking tones off their perch: investigating the intelligibility of Anglophone beginner learners of Mandarin Chinese at two secondary schools in the North of England
Knocking tones off their perch: investigating the intelligibility of Anglophone beginner learners of Mandarin Chinese at two secondary schools in the North of England Robert Neal Abstract Set within the context of teaching and learning Chinese at two secondary schools in the North of England and …
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"You give me a name that I cannot say": an investigation into the intelligibility of the criterial rules in the theoretical component of CAPS Grade 10-12 visual art
Previous work in the field of art education in South Africa has addressed the need to make explicit the requirements and valued criteria in the practical work (Bolton, 2006). However, systematic research into the theoretical component of the National Curriculum Statement Curriculum and Assessment …
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L'intelligibilité de la pratique. Entre Foucault et Sartre
By questioning the logic of practice as the main topic of intellectual life in France in the 1960's, we shall understake a confrontation between the ideas of Foucault and Sartre. Without playing down their differences of opinion, which have often been emphasized by the humanistic dispute, we shall …
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Application of deinterlacing for the enhancement of surveillance video
As the cost of video technology has fallen, surveillance cameras have become an integral part of a vast number of security systems. However, even with the introduction of progressive video displays, the majority of these systems still use interlaced scanning so that they may be connected to …
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Properties of naturally produced clear speech at normal rates and implications for intelligibility enhancement
… listening conditions, talkers can increase their intelligibility by speaking clearly[45, 55, 42]. While producing clear speech, however, talkers often reduce their speaking rate significantly[46, 55]. A recent study[28] showed that speaking slowly is not responsible for the high intelligibility of …
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Noise reduction algorithms and performance metrics for improving speech reception in noise by cochlear-implant users
This thesis addresses the design and evaluation of algorithms to improve speech reception for cochlear-implant (CI) users in adverse listening environments. We develop and assess performance metrics for use in the algorithm design process; such metrics make algorithm evaluation efficient, …
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An acoustical study of fricatives in the speech of dysarthric speakers
The goal of the present study is to better understand dysarthric speakers' speech production through quantitative acoustical analysis of the speech signals. In the past, two acoustical measurements proven to correlate with speech intelligibility in dysarthric speakers are speech rate and slope of …
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Matrices Of Disorder: Class, Race, And The Policing Of Normative Southern Femininity In William Faulkner's The Sound And The Fury, As I Lay Dying, Sanctuary, And Requiem For A Nun
… Judith Butler's late twentieth century theory of gender performance, outlined in her book Gender Trouble , to three major novels from William Faulkner's early career, The Sound and the Fury, As I Lay Dying, and Sanctuary, and to one novel from his later period, Requiem for a Nun. This project …
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Synthesized speech intelligibility and preschool age children: comparing accuracy for single word repetition with repeated exposure.
Purpose: This investigation examined the effect of repeated exposure to novel and repeated single spoken words in typical listening environments on the intelligibility of two synthesized speech voices and human recorded speech in preschool age children. Methods: Eighteen preschool aged participants …
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