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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"standard speech"”.
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Spectral discontinuity in concatenative speech synthesis – perception, join costs and feature transformations
… of spectral discontinuity in concatenative speech synthesis. Such measures are used as join costs to quantify the compatibility of speech units for concatenation in unit selection synthesis. No previous study has reported a spectral measure that satisfactorily correlates with human …
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Adapting Large-Scale Speaker-Independent Automatic Speech Recognition to Dysarthric Speech
… improvements in speaker-independent automatic speech recognition (ASR), the performance of large-scale speech recognition systems is still significantly worse on dysarthric speech than on standard speech. Both the inherent noise of dysarthric speech and the lack of large datasets add to the …
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THE ELIZA-HIGGINS MODEL: THE IDEOLOGY, RAPPORT AND METHODS OF DIALECT ACQUISITION
… addressing the issues of dialect prestige and standard speech. Chapter two examines the rapport between teacher/coach and learner/actor, including a comparison of teacher-centered and learner-centered pedagogies and the influence of expectancy theories on learner growth. Chapter three details …
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Variable time-scale information processing
… simulation of the system has been made using a standard speech signal, to make some assessment of this distortion. It is concluded that the new system should be an improvement on existing pulse transmission systems, allowing the use of a smaller transmission bandwidth, but introducing a time …
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Mispronunciation Detection for Language Learning and Speech Recognition Adaptation
… "accent detection" more specifically) within the speech recognition community are receiving increased attention now. Two application areas, namely language learning and speech recognition adaptation, are largely driving this research interest and are the focal points of this work.</p> <p>There are …
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Modelling out-of-vocabulary words for robust speech recognition
… or out-of-vocabulary (OOV) words in continuous speech recognition. Most of today's state-of-the-art speech recognition systems can recognize only words that belong to some predefined finite word vocabulary. When encountering an OOV word, a speech recognizer erroneously substitutes the OOV word …
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An American Actor's Dialect
… ten years, both studying and teaching Voice & Speech for the Actor, I have become frustrated with the status quo of so called 'standard speech'. The two dialects that I have studied in depth are Edith Skinner's 'American Classical Stage Standard' and Kenneth Crannell's 'Career Speech'. I have …
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Statistical models for noise-robust speech recognition
A standard way of improving the robustness of speech recognition systems to noise is model compensation. This replaces a speech recogniser's distributions over clean speech by ones over noise-corrupted speech. For each clean speech component, model compensation techniques usually approximate the …