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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"Speaking Rate"”.
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The effects of speaking rate and speaking mode on intelligibility
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 1995.
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The effects of speaking rate and pausing on comprehensibility of non-native English
… the effects of the temporal variables (i.e., speaking rate and pausing) on comprehensibility ratings of second language (L2) speech. Twenty advanced Chinese speakers of English were audio-recorded as they read 3 short airline flight announcement passages. For each passage, the speakers …
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The Ability of Speaking Rate to Influence Infants' Preferences for Infant-Directed Speech
Much research has examined how rate affects visual preferences in human infants and auditory preferences in avian infants. In the visual domain, it seems that human infants prefer stimuli (e.g., flashing displays) presented at faster relative rates. Research using avian species has shown that …
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Acoustic features of impaired articulation due to amyotrophic lateral sclerosis
… speech severity: sentence intelligibility, speaking rate, and communication efficiency. The findings were grounded within a physiologic framework where acoustic features were grouped into one of three domains that when combined, were hypothesized to broadly characterize articulatory …
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Properties of naturally produced clear speech at normal rates and implications for intelligibility enhancement
… 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 clear speech, …
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A comparison of comprehension of rate controlled speech by young aphasic and normal children
It is obvious that the effects of speaking rate on the ability of aphasic children to comprehend verbal material has not been extensively researched. The studies cited above suggest that an increase in rate adversely affects comprehension by various subjects, while a decrease in rate may improve …
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Toward a social signaling framework : activity and emphasis in speech
… form of verbal communication. Loudness, pitch, speaking rate, and other non-linguistic speech features are crucial aspects of human spoken interaction. In this thesis, we separate these speech features into two categories -- vocal Activity and vocal Emphasis -- and propose a framework for …
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Speech, signal, symptom : machine listening and the remaking of psychiatric assessment
… screening are fallible if not altogether inaccurate, since they depend upon a mental health care worker's ability to interpret the semantic content of a patient's speech. Through research studies involving human subjects, the teams hope to develop more biologically based and resource-efficient …
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Conversational scene analysis
… one speaker is holding the floor or both are speaking at equal levels. Our goal is to find conversations, find the scenes within them, determine what is happening inside the scenes, and then use the scene structure to characterize entire conversations. We begin by developing a series of …
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Infant attention to rate of infant directed speech in the context of varying levels of visual stimulation
… visual display affected infant preferences for rate of speaking. The present investigation was an attempt to explore this possibility. In Experiment 1, 3- to 4-month old infants were presented with ID-normal and ID-slow speech samples paired with displays of higher and lower complexity. Here, …
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Behavioral and Psychophysiological Responses of 4-month-old Infants to Differing Rates of Infant Directed Speech
… (but not older) infants attended more to slower rates of IDS, even though it was unlikely that they had heard such speech (when speech is spoken at this slow rate, the fundamental frequency cannot be maintained). The purpose of this study was to expand our investigation of how speaking rate …
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Neural representations used by brain regions underlying speech production
… electropalatography evidence indicates that as speaking rate increases, gestures within syllables are manipulated separately but those within consonant clusters act as one motor unit. Moreover, speech error data suggest that a syllable's phonological content is, at some stage, represented …
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Computers to help with conversations : affective framework to enhance human nonverbal skills
… frustration, delight or politeness. I demonstrate that it is useful to model the dynamic properties of smiles that evolve through time and that while a smile may occur in positive and in negative situations, its underlying temporal structures may help to disambiguate the underlying state, in …
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Investigating speech technology for monitoring disease progression in the context of neurodegenerative disease
… unravelling disease progression and developing strategies for secondary prevention (i.e. where disease is present, but no symptoms have emerged). Whilst memory loss is usually regarded as the most prominent of these symptoms, language decline is also an essential source of clinical information …