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Towards Natural Bilingual and Code-Switched Speech Synthesis Based on Mix of Monolingual Recordings and Cross-Lingual Voice Conversion [PDF]

Interspeech, 2020
Recent state-of-the-art neural text-to-speech (TTS) synthesis models have dramatically improved intelligibility and naturalness of generated speech from text.
Shengkui Zhao, Trung Hieu Nguyen, Hao Wang, B. Ma   +3 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

The Nature of Errors in Russian Speech of a Future Bilingual Teacher of the Russian Language: Psycholinguistic, Linguo-Methodological Approaches to the Interpretation of Experimental Data

Polylinguality and Transcultural Practices
Thematic justification is explained by the necessity to analyze errors in the Russian speech of a bilingual personality of natural foreign - Russian bilingual Komi - Permyak based on specific character of the processes of his speech. Phenomenon of “error”
Natalya V. Medvedeva
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TO THE QUESTION ABOUT THE CONSIDERATION OF THE PECULIARITIES OF SPEECH DEVELOPMENT OF BILINGUAL CHILDREN IN EDUCATIONAL PROCESS

Вестник Северо-Кавказского федерального университета, 2022
The article discusses the nature of bilingualism and the peculiarities of the speech development of bilingual children. There are represented a pedagogical conditions conducive to the effective organization of educational process in bilingual children ...
Irina Istomina
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Phonological Factors Affecting L1 Phonetic Realization of Proficient Polish Users of English [PDF]

, 2015
Acoustic phonetic studies examine the L1 of Polish speakers with professional level proficiency in English. The studies include two tasks, a production task carried out entirely in Polish and a phonetic code-switching task in which speakers insert target
Anna Balas, Antoniou, Antoniou, Antoniou, Antoniou, Arkadiusz Rojczyk, Best, Best, Brunner, Brunner, Bullock, Bullock, Chang, Chang, Cook, Cook, Cruttenden, Cruttenden, Davidson, Davidson, Dilley, Dilley, Dogil, Dogil, Flege, Flege, Flege, Flege, Garellek, Garellek, Geoffrey Schwartz, Grosjean, Grosjean, Grosjean, Grosjean, Harada, Harada, Kraska, Kraska, Maddieson, Maddieson, Munro, Munro, Newlin, Newlin, Olson, Olson, Sancier, Sancier, Schwartz, Schwartz, Strange, Strange, Sypiańska, Sypiańska, Umeda, Umeda, Waniek, Waniek, Wiese, Wiese, Zampini, Zampini   +62 more
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Two Tongues, One Brain: Imaging Bilingual Speech Production [PDF]

Frontiers in Psychology, 2011
This review considers speaking in a second language from the perspective of motor-sensory control. Previous studies relating brain function to the prior acquisition of two or more languages (neurobilingualism) have investigated the differential demands made on linguistic representations and processes, and the role of domain-general cognitive control ...
Anna J. Simmonds, Richard J. S. Wise, Richard J. S. Wise, Robert eLeech   +3 more
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Breaking Down the Bilingual Cost in Speech Production [PDF]

Cognitive Science, 2015
AbstractBilinguals have been shown to perform worse than monolinguals in a variety of verbal tasks. This study investigated this bilingual verbal cost in a large‐scale picture‐naming study conducted in Spanish. We explored how individual characteristics of the participants and the linguistic properties of the words being spoken influence this ...
Sadat, Jasmin, Martin, Clara D., Magnuson, James S., Alario, François-Xavier, Costa, Albert   +4 more
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Executive functions in mono- and bilingual children with language impairment – issues for speech-language pathology

Frontiers in Psychology, 2015
The clinical assessment of language impairment (LI) in bilingual children imposes challenges for speech-language pathology services. Assessment tools standardized for monolingual populations increase the risk of misinterpreting bilingualism as language ...
Olof eSandgren, Ketty eHolmström
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Language Learning Under Varied Conditions: Neural Indices of Speech Perception in Bilingual Turkish-German Children and in Monolingual Children With Developmental Language Disorder (DLD)

Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 2022
Lateral temporal measures of the auditory evoked potential (AEP) including the T-complex (positive Ta and negative Tb), as well as an earlier negative peak (Na) index maturation of auditory/speech processing.
Tanja Rinker, Yan H. Yu, Monica Wagner, Valerie L. Shafer   +3 more
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Dual Language Models for Code Switched Speech Recognition

, 2018
In this work, we present a simple and elegant approach to language modeling for bilingual code-switched text. Since code-switching is a blend of two or more different languages, a standard bilingual language model can be improved upon by using structures
Garg, Saurabh, Jyothi, Preethi, Parekh, Tanmay   +2 more
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The effects of bilingualism on speakers who stutter during late childhood [PDF]

, 2009
Objectives: To examine stuttering by children speaking an alternative language exclusively (LE) or with English (BIL) and to study onset of stuttering, school performance and recovery rate relative to monolingual speakers who stutter (MONO).
Davis, S., Howell, P., Williams, R. M.
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