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Tactile modulation of emotional speech samples [PDF]
Copyright © 2012 Katri Salminen et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly ...
Ahmaniemi, Teemu +7 more
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Aging and Speech-on-Speech Masking
A common complaint of many older adults is difficulty communicating in situations where they must focus on one talker in the presence of other people speaking. In listening environments containing multiple talkers, age-related changes may be caused by increased sensitivity to energetic masking, increased susceptibility to informational masking (e.g ...
Helfer, Karen S, Freyman, Richard L.
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Cepstral analysis based on the Glimpse proportion measure for improving the intelligibility of HMM-based synthetic speech in noise [PDF]
In this paper we introduce a new cepstral coefficient extraction method based on an intelligibility measure for speech in noise, the Glimpse Proportion measure.
King, S. +4 more
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Introduction: Reading accuracy depends on such skills as normal hearing, auditory perception, auditory memory, normal visual perception and visual memory. The aim of this study was to determine the relationship between two reading skills, namely accuracy
Nahid Baharlooie +3 more
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Defining 'Speech': Subtraction, Addition, and Division [PDF]
In free speech theory ‘speech’ has to be defined as a special term of art. I argue that much free speech discourse comes with a tacit commitment to a ‘Subtractive Approach’ to defining speech.
Simpson, Robert Mark
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The following objectives of the study were formulated: i) to investigate differences in measured signal to noise ratios while recording speech-evoked auditory brainstem response (cABR) and cortical late latency response (LLR) in low and high acceptable ...
Hemanth N. Shetty +2 more
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In this paper I argue that pragmatic ability must become part of what we teach in the classroom if we are to realize the goals of communicative competence for our students.
Teaching Speech Acts
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• Background:Formant structure is one of the most important acoustic characteristics of Sounds.We can differentiate Vowels according to their first three Formants.
A Bahrami +4 more
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Introduction: There is a modest relationship between speech perception skills and perceived hearing handicap in individuals with hearing loss. In this study, an attempt is made at linking psychoacoustic results and speech perception skills to understand ...
Sindhu Parthasarathy +1 more
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Using the beat histogram for speech rhythm description and language identification [PDF]
In this paper we present a novel approach for the description of speech rhythm and the extraction of rhythm-related features for automatic language identification (LID).
Lykartsis, Athanasios, Weinzierl, Stefan
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