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Zero-Shot Foreign Accent Conversion without a Native Reference
Interspeech, 2022Previous approaches for foreign accent conversion (FAC) ei-ther need a reference utterance from a native speaker (L1) during synthesis, or are dedicated one-to-one systems that must be trained separately for each non-native (L2) speaker.
Waris Quamer +4 more
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Disentangling professional competence and foreign accent
Journal of Second Language Pronunciation, 2022This study examined listeners’ evaluations of first (L1) and second language (L2) English speech in work-related contexts. Ninety-six English-speaking listeners from Calgary rated audio recordings of 12 English speakers (6 L1 English, 6 L1 Tagalog ...
Cesar Teló +2 more
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Foreign Accent Conversion using Concentrated Attention
2022 IEEE International Conference on Knowledge Graph (ICKG), 2022Foreign accent conversion is an important and challenging problem due to significant differences in the manner of articulation and the speech prosody of different regional speakers. In this paper, we propose a new method for the problem of foreign accent
Xuexue Zang, Fei Xie, F. Weng
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Perceived foreign accent in L3 English: the effects of heritage language use
International Journal of Multilingualism, 2021Bringing to the field of third language (L3) research a new population of speakers, namely heritage speaker (HS) L3 learners, this study investigates the accents of 19 German-Italian HSs in L3 English.
Anika Lloyd-Smith
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Functional foreign accent syndrome
Practical Neurology, 2016Foreign accent syndrome (FAS) is a rare disorder where the affected person speaks in an accent that the listener perceives as foreign. Although most cases have left hemisphere lesions, some may be functional. We describe a case of functional FAS and present a video of her speech.
Omay, Lee +3 more
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A Doctor’s Foreign Accent Affects Perceptions of Competence
Health Communication, 2020Many doctors work or train in foreign countries and speak with a foreign accent. People sometimes assume that a person who speaks with a foreign accent possesses negative traits and personality characteristics.
C. L. Baquiran, E. Nicoladis
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Interspeech
Recently, a method for synthesizing foreign-accented speech only with native speech data using discrete tokens obtained from self-supervised learning (SSL) models was proposed.
Kentaro Onda +4 more
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Recently, a method for synthesizing foreign-accented speech only with native speech data using discrete tokens obtained from self-supervised learning (SSL) models was proposed.
Kentaro Onda +4 more
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Diffusion-Based Method with TTS Guidance for Foreign Accent Conversion
International Symposium on Chinese Spoken Language ProcessingAccent conversion (AC) aims to alter the accent of spoken language while preserving the original content and speaker characteristics. While any accent can be selected as a target, foreign accent conversion (FAC) that focuses on L2 speakers is ...
Qibing Bai +6 more
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Foreign Accent Conversion by Synthesizing Speech from Phonetic Posteriorgrams
Interspeech, 2019Methods for foreign accent conversion (FAC) aim to generate speech that sounds similar to a given non-native speaker but with the accent of a native speaker.
Guanlong Zhao +2 more
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Foreign accent, comprehensibility and intelligibility, redux
, 2020We revisit Munro and Derwing (1995a), providing retrospective commentary on our original methods and findings. Using what are now well-established assessment techniques, the study examined the interrelationships among accentedness, comprehensibility, and
M. Munro, Tracey M. Derwing
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