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Cost-sensitive learning for emotion robust speaker recognition. [PDF]
ScientificWorldJournal, 2014 In the field of information security, voice is one of the most important parts in biometrics. Especially, with the development of voice communication through the Internet or telephone system, huge voice data resources are accessed. In speaker recognition, voiceprint can be applied as the unique password for the user to prove his/her identity.
Li D, Yang Y, Dai W.
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Visibly invisible: The study of middle class African American English
Language and Linguistics Compass, Volume 16, Issue 11, November 2022., 2022 Abstract Middle class African American English (AAE) has remained largely invisible to the sociolinguistic lens despite the fact that over 50 years of research has made it one of the most examined varieties of American English. This gap in the sociolinguistic literature is largely reflective of a strategic effort on the part of linguists to dismantle ...
Tracey L. Weldon
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Speech Signal and Facial Image Processing for Obstructive Sleep Apnea Assessment. [PDF]
Comput Math Methods Med, 2015 Obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) is a common sleep disorder characterized by recurring breathing pauses during sleep caused by a blockage of the upper airway (UA). OSA is generally diagnosed through a costly procedure requiring an overnight stay of the patient at the hospital.
Espinoza-Cuadros F +5 more
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Lifespans and Styles, 2018 Welcome to the first issue of the fourth volume of Lifespans & Styles , which features two papers that continue the journal’s original mission of highlighting excellence in undergraduate research while furthering case studies of intraspeaker variation ...
Lauren Hall-Lew
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“Sassy Queens”: Stylistic orthographic variation in Twitter and the enregisterment of AAVE
Journal of Sociolinguistics, Volume 24, Issue 2, Page 245-264, April 2020., 2020 Abstract Recent computational sociolinguistic analyses of social media have emphasized the potential of using orthographic variation as a proxy for speech, thereby permitting macro‐level quantitative studies of regional and social variation (e.g. Eisenstein, 2015).
Christian Ilbury
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Inter- and intra-speaker variation in French schwa
Glossa, 2016 Quantitative constraint-based theories of optionality typically aim to model the frequency with which an individual speaker’s grammar maps one input onto various output forms.
Aaron Kaplan, Abby Kaplan, Andrew Bayles
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The Illative Marker of Monosyllabic Words in Soikkola Ingrian [PDF]
Linguistica Uralica, 2023 This article analyses the vowel in the illative marker of monosyllabic nouns which usually copies the quality of the stem vowels. The data come from different questionnaires recorded by Soikkola Ingrian speakers in the 21st century.
Fedor Rozhanskiy
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Individual-level contact limits phonological complexity: Evidence from bunched and retroflex /ɹ/ [PDF]
, 2016 We compare the complexity of idiosyncratic sound patterns involving American English /ɹ/ with the relative simplicity of clear/dark /l/ allophony patterns found in English and other languages. For /ɹ/, we report an ultrasound-based articulatory study of
Archangeli, DB, Baker, A, Mielke, J
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“My Vocal Cords are Made of Tweed”: Style-Shifting as Speaker Design
Lifespans and Styles, 2015 Intraspeaker variation is evaluated in terms of speaker design in a number of studies (Coupland 1985, Schilling-Estes 1998, Podesva 2008). This study explores possible motives for variation from a speaker design perspective through the analysis of three ...
Melissa Geere +2 more
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Emergent sociolinguistic variation in severe language endangerment [PDF]
, 2019 Contrary to Labov’s Principle of style shifting, studies in language obsolescence portray speakers of dying languages as ‘monostylistic’, a characterization questioned here. Variationist methodology is adopted in a context of gradual language death.
Kasstan, J., Kasstan, J.
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