Analysis of speech prosody using WaveNet embeddings : The Lombard effect [PDF]
We present a novel methodology for speech prosody research based on the analysis of embeddings used to condition a convolutional WaveNet speech synthesis system.
Juraj Šimko +5 more
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Speech-genre semantics and its current problems [PDF]
Speech-genre semantics is a relatively new branch in genre studies, although it directly intersects with traditional problems of linguistics: it studies the reflection of the properties of discursive, speech-genre, and similar phenomena in the semantics ...
Dementyev, Vadim Viktorovich
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Functioning of Clichéd Constructions in the Speech Genre of Cinema Announcement (based on Internet Movie Announcements of Indian Films) [PDF]
The article touches upon current problems of speech genres functioning on the Internet and fits into the context of modern research in the field of virtual genre studies.
Khemka, Anand Kumar
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Prosodic Prominence and Boundaries in Sequence-to-Sequence Speech Synthesis [PDF]
Recent advances in deep learning methods have elevated synthetic speech quality to human level, and the field is now moving towards addressing prosodic variation in synthetic speech.Despite successes in this effort, the state-of-the-art systems fall ...
Juraj Šimko +7 more
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GENRE-ORIENTED APPROACH, GENRE AWARENESS AND GENRE COMPETENCE AS CATEGORIES OF LINGUISTIC DIDACTICS
The article discusses the concepts of a genre-oriented approach to teaching speech activity, genre awareness and genre competence as categories of linguistic didactics.
I A Sotova
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Principles of System Modeling of the Genre (Exemplified by Texts of Natural Written Speech)
The article determines the problems of modern speech genre modeling and proposes a method for solving them. The methodology for describing the speech genre in modern linguistics needs to work out principles that are focused on system design.
Nadezhda Tyukaeva
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Specificity of Heterogeneity of Banquet Speech Genre in English Ritual Discourse
The article deals with heterogeneity of banquet speech genre in English ritual discourse. Defined in terms of cognitive and discursive approach, the utterance is a simple or complex communicative action serving for a definite purpose and realized through/
Natalya Yu. Sorokoletova
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Building a Document Genre Corpus: a Profile of the KRYS I Corpus [PDF]
This paper describes the KRYS I corpus (http://www.krys-corpus.eu/Info.html), consisting of documents classified into 70 genre classes. It has been constructed as part of an effort to automate document genre classification as distinct from topic ...
Berninger, Vera +5 more
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Do genre studies need the concept of genre sphere? [PDF]
The article discusses the legitimacy and appropriateness of using the concept of genre sphere in modern genre studies, by analogy with other “spheres” used in many modern humanities, for example, in conceptology. The author concludes ...
Dementyev, Vadim Viktorovich
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Genrogenic situations (on the example of boltovnya ‘≈chatter’) [PDF]
The article deals with genrogenic situations (Gg S), i.e. situations marked by speech genres, indicative of the representation of a particular speech genre in a given national culture. The Gg S as a cognitive image corresponding to a speech genre in
Dementyev, Vadim Viktorovich
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