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Towards a vividness in synthesized speech for audiobooks
Eesti ja Soome-ugri Keeleteaduse Ajakiri, 2019 The goal of this study was to determine which acoustic parameters are significant in differentiating the speaking styles of a narrator and that of male and female characters as voiced by a reader of audiobooks.
Hille Pajupuu, Rene Altrov, Jaan Pajupuu
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Le discours direct dans la presse : une approche didactique
E-REA, 2019 This paper offers a synthesis of recent research works focusing on direct reported speech used in the British press. Thanks to a didactic approach, it aims to analyse the way reported words are inserted into newspaper articles.
Grégoire LACAZE
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The Resonator Banjo Resonator, part 2: What makes them really crack? [PDF]
, 2015 A simple experiment quantifies the difference between the sound production of a banjo with and without a resonator back. Driven by a small tweeter mounted inside the pot, for frequencies above about 4500 Hz, the produced external sound is 6 to 10 dB ...
Politzer, David
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The function of direct speech in Bacchylides' poetry: the case of ode 5 and ode 18 [PDF]
, 2017 This paper is aimed at analysing Bacchylides’ narrative choices and the role played by and the effects of direct speech in two poems of his, namely ode 5 and ode 18. The use of direct speech in these odes allows the poet to achieve narrative effects that
MERISIO, ELISA NURIA
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Sensorimotor adaptation to auditory perturbation of speech is facilitated by noninvasive brain stimulation [PDF]
, 2018 Repeated exposure to disparity between the motor plan and auditory feedback during speech production results in a proportionate change in the motor system’s response called auditory-motor adaptation.
Chartrove, Julia +6 more
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, 1996 Quoted speech is often set off by punctuation marks, in particular quotation marks. Thus, it might seem that the quotation marks would be extremely useful in identifying these structures in texts. Unfortunately, the situation is not quite so clear.
Doran, Christine
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A single case study of articulatory adaptation during acoustic mimicry [PDF]
, 2011 The distribution of fine-grained phonetic variation can be observed in the speech of members of welldefined social groups. It is evident that such variation must somehow be able to propagate through a speech community from speaker to hearer. However,
Lawson, E. +2 more
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Joint Uncertainty Decoding with Unscented Transform for Noise Robust Subspace Gaussian Mixture Models [PDF]
, 2012 Common noise compensation techniques use vector Taylor series (VTS) to approximate the mismatch function. Recent work shows that the approximation accuracy may be improved by sampling.
Ghoshal, Arnab, Lu, Liang, Renals, Steve
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AN ERROR ANALYSIS OF THE TRANSFORMATION FROM DIRECT TO INDIRECT SPEECH
JL3T (Journal of Linguistics, Literature and Language Teaching), 2018 The objective of the study is to reveal the types of errors made by students in transforming direct to indirect speech in the form of statements. Furthermore, it attempts to find out the kind of errors that the students do most.
Zahratul Idami
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Direct Speech to Speech Translation: A Review
Speech to speech translation (S2ST) is a transformative technology that bridges global communication gaps, enabling real time multilingual interactions in diplomacy, tourism, and international trade. Our review examines the evolution of S2ST, comparing traditional cascade models which rely on automatic speech recognition (ASR), machine translation (MT),
Sarim, Mohammad +4 more
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