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Showing 1 to 3 of 3 for “"evolution of speech"”.
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Modelling the emergence of a basis for vocal communication between artificial agents
Understanding the human faculty for speech presents a fundamental and complex problem. We do not know how humans decode the rapid speech signal and the origins and evolution of speech remain shrouded in mystery. Speakers generate a continuous stream of sounds apparently devoid of any specifying …
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A comparative study of models for automatic speech recognition.
This thesis describes a study of the most popular techniques for speech modelling at present, the Dynamic Programming approach, the Hidden Markov Model (HMM), and the Neural Network, which are also evaluated by experiments. The reason why the HMM outperforms the other techniques is examined …
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Eine vergleichende Studie zur zerebralen Repräsentation des Spiegelneuronensystems und der Deutschen Gebärdensprache bei Normalprobanden sowie Gehörlosen
… observation, motor learning, and imitation of action. Furthermore it is hypothesized that the mirror neuron system plays a key role during the evolution of language and provides the necessary link between manual gestures as an early step in communication preceding vocalization. This theory …