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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"Speech Prosody"”.
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Towards a hybrid model of speech prosody
Speech is conveyed through a richly detailed acoustic signal, and each spoken instance of a word varies. Yet humans recognize words quickly, with few errors and typically with no conscious effort. Linguists hypothesize that abstract categories aid the process of speech comprehension because complex …
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Does speech prosody matter in health communication? Evidence from native and non-native English speaking medical students in a simulated clinical interaction
… ultimate aim of this study was to ascertain if speech prosody contributes to the perception of professionalism in medical communication. Research questions on the role of speech prosody in conveying professional attitudes in medical communication, the prosodic differences between native and …
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A computational model of prosody for Yorùbá text-to-speech synthesis
This work examines prosody modelling for the Standard Yorùbá (SY) language in the context of computer text-to-speech synthesis applications. The thesis of this research is that it is possible to develop a practical prosody model by using appropriate computational tools and techniques which combines …
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Acoustic cues for the perception of the information status of words in speech
… If speakers signal discourse meaning in their speech, then listeners may use that information in comprehending utterance meaning. This dissertation includes four studies that investigate the perception of four different categories of discourse meaning (i.e., meaning related to information …
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Prosody Dependent Speech Recognition on American Radio News Speech
"Prosody (the melody and rhythm of natural speech), although important for human speech recognition, has not been fully utilized in large vocabulary continuous speech recognition. In this dissertation, we propose a novel ""prosody-dependent speech recognition"" framework, in which word and prosody …