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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"Speech science"”.
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Auditory synthesizing abilities of children with varying degrees of articulatory proficiency
… State University. Dept. of Audiology and Speech Science, 1969
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Characterizing phonetic transformations and fine-grained acoustic differences across dialects
This thesis is motivated by the gaps between speech science and technology in analyzing dialects. In speech science, investigating phonetic rules is usually manually laborious and time consuming, limiting the amount of data analyzed. Without sufficient data, the analysis could potentially overlook …
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A sensorimotor basis of speech communication
… of constructing a language-agnostic model of speech communication. Insights from major theories in speech science and linguistics are used to develop a conceptual framework for sensorimotor primitives in the context of control and information theory. Within this conceptual framework, …
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Influencing Oral-nasal Balance in Speech and Song
… and modification of oral-nasal balance in speech and song. Literature was reviewed from the fields of speech science and singing voice pedagogy, which motivated three projects. The first project (Santoni et al., 2018) explored the role of altered nasal signal level feedback on the …
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Elicitation techniques for the evaluation of speech under stress: Towards a framework for use in a controlled environment
Existing work in Computer Science and Electronic Engineering demonstrates that Digital Signal Processing techniques can effectively identify the presence of stress in the speech signal. These techniques use datasets containing real or actual stress samples i.e. real-life stress such as 911 calls …
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Hypernasal Speech Analysis via Emperical Mode Decomposition and the Teager-Kasiser Energy Operator
In the area of speech science, one particular problem of importance has been to develop a clear method for detecting hypernasality in speech. For speech pathologists, hypernsality is a critical diagnostic used for judging the severity of velopharyngeal (nasal cavity/mouth separation) inadequacy in …
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Effects of Visual Feedback on the Production and Perception of Second Language Speech Sounds : A Comparison of Articulatory and Auditory Instruction
A fundamental issue in speech science concerns the extent to which speech sounds are mentally represented by articulatory-motor and/or auditory-acoustic features. This dissertation aims to expand upon the current literature by investigating changes in production and perception following visual …
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Automatic Dialect and Accent Recognition and its Application to Speech Recognition
A fundamental challenge for current research on speech science and technology is understanding and modeling individual variation in spoken language. Individuals have their own speaking styles, depending on many factors, such as their dialect and accent as well as their socioeconomic background. …
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Speech-enabled application development for young children
… it tests the feasibility of using commercial speech recognition technology with young children. Commercial technology has the advantage of being available now and it has matured enough for standards to have been developed which enable a speech application to easily use alternative recognition …
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The impact of voice on trust attributions
Trust and speech are both essential aspects of human interaction. On the one hand, trust is necessary for vocal communication to be meaningful. On the other hand, humans have developed a way to infer someone’s trustworthiness from their voice, as well as to signal their own. Yet, research on …