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Listen Closely: Measuring Vocal Tone in Corporate Disclosures

Journal of Accounting Research, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT We examine the usefulness of machine learning approaches for measuring vocal tone in corporate disclosures. We document a substantial mismatch between the widely adopted actor‐based training data underlying these approaches and speech in corporate disclosures.
Jonas Ewertz, Charlotte Knickrehm, Martin Nienhaus, Doron Reichmann   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Exploring the performance of automatic speaker recognition using twin speech and deep learning-based artificial neural networks

Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence
This study assessed the influence of speaker similarity and sample length on the performance of an automatic speaker recognition (ASR) system utilizing the SpeechBrain toolkit. The dataset comprised recordings from 20 male identical twin speakers engaged
Julio Cesar Cavalcanti, Julio Cesar Cavalcanti, Julio Cesar Cavalcanti, Ronaldo Rodrigues da Silva, Anders Eriksson, Plinio A. Barbosa   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Characterizing intonation deficit in motor speech disorders : an autosegmental-metrical analysis of spontaneous speech in hypokinetic dysarthria, ataxic dysarthria and foreign accent syndrome [PDF]

, 2012
The autosegmental-metrical (AM) framework represents an established methodology for intonational analysis in unimpaired speaker populations but has found little application in describing intonation in motor speech disorders (MSDs).
Kuschmann, Anja, Lowit, Anja
core   +1 more source

Exploring Acoustic Overlap in Second Language Vowel Productions

International Journal of Applied Linguistics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study examines the alignment of vowel categories between second language (L2) learners and first language (L1) speakers of the target language, as well as potential overlaps between adjacent vowels in terms of formant frequencies and duration.
Georgios P. Georgiou, Elena Savva
wiley   +1 more source

Dimension esthétique des voix normales et dysphoniques : Approches perceptive et acoustique

TIPA. Travaux interdisciplinaires sur la parole et le langage, 2012
Researchers as well as speech therapists are interested in acoustic cues, that allow evaluating voice quality and its degradation in order to obtain a diagnosis and to analyze the effects of a therapy.
Melissa Barkat-Defradas, Coralie Busseuil, Oriane Chauvy, Fabrice Hirsch, Camille Fauth, Joana Révis, Benoît Amy de la Bretèque   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

Wrestling Voices: Amplifying Patriotism and Ethnic Stereotypes in 1980s American Professional Wrestling

The Journal of American Culture, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines the use of promotional interviews (“promos”) in American professional wrestling of the 1980s. I argue that promos introduced a vocal modality into a form of sports entertainment that, as Roland Barthes ([1957] 1972) showed in Mythologies, had always been dominated by visual spectacle. I then undertake a focused linguistic
Jens Kjeldgaard‐Christiansen
wiley   +1 more source

Statistical analysis of acoustic characteristics of Tibetan Lhasa dialect speech emotion

SHS Web of Conferences, 2016
The paper makes a quantitative analysis and comparison on the continuous speech emotion of Lhasa Tibetan in the four basic emotional patterns (happy, surprise, sad, neutral) pitch, energy and time length by experimental phonetics and the linear ...
Guo Dandan, Yu Hongzhi, Hu Axu, Ding Yanbing   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Machine Assisted Analysis of Vowel Length Contrasts in Wolof

, 2017
Growing digital archives and improving algorithms for automatic analysis of text and speech create new research opportunities for fundamental research in phonetics. Such empirical approaches allow statistical evaluation of a much larger set of hypothesis
Besacier, Laurent, Gauthier, Elodie, Voisin, Sylvie   +2 more
core   +2 more sources

Exploring the Predictive Role of Lexical Stress Discrimination in the Phonological and Grammatical Skills of Teenagers With Down Syndrome

Journal of Intellectual Disability Research, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Temporal‐sampling theory suggests that lexical stress discrimination plays an important role in language disorders. This study explored whether this is also the case in Down syndrome (DS) and, particularly, whether lexical stress discrimination could contribute to accounting for the phonological and grammatical skills of teenagers ...
Elena López‐Riobóo, Pastora Martínez‐Castilla   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

Clicks, stop bursts, vocoids and the timing of articulatory gestures in Kinyarwanda

Studies in African Linguistics, 2016
This paper shows that differences in timing and coordination of articulatory gestures in Kinyarwanda’s complex consonants trigger the emergence of epiphenomenal clicks.
Didier Demolin
doaj   +3 more sources