Normalization of Different Swedish Dialects Spoken in Finland [PDF]
Proceedings of the 4th ACM SIGSPATIAL Workshop on Geospatial Humanities, 2020 Our study presents a dialect normalization method for different Finland Swedish dialects covering six regions. We tested 5 different models, and the best model improved the word error rate from 76.45 to 28.58. Contrary to results reported in earlier research on Finnish dialects, we found that training the model with one word at a time gave best results.
Mika Hämäläinen +2 more
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A comparative study of focus realization in three Swedish dialects.
The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 1996 State-of-the-art speech recognition and speech translation systems do not currently make use of prosodic information. Utterances often have one or more constituents semantically focused by prosodic means and detection of the focus/foci of an utterance is crucial for a correct interpretation of the speech signal.
Robert Eklund
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Aggregate analysis of vowel pronunciation in Swedish dialects
Oslo Studies in Language, 2011 In this paper an aggregate analysis of vowel pronunciation in Swedish dialects is proposed by means of multidimensional scaling (MDS). The Gap statistic showed that no statistically significant partitioning of Swedish dialects can be made based on vowel pronunciation, which means that the dialects form a true linguistic continuum.
Therese Leinonen
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Classification of Swedish dialects using a hierarchical prosodic analysis [PDF]
Speech Prosody 2018, 2018 Peer ...
Marcin Włodarczak +3 more
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F-pattern Analysis of Professional Imitations of "hallå" in three Swedish Dialects [PDF]
, 2006 We describe preliminary results of an acoustic-phonetic study of voice imitations, which is ultimately aimed towards developing an explanatory approach to similar-sounding voices. Such voices are readily obtained by way of imitations, which were elicited by asking an adult-male, professional imitator to utter two tokens of the Swedish word “hallå” in a
Frantz Clermont, Elisabeth Zetterholm
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Swedish national guidelines on urothelial cancer echo the EAU guidelines but with some regional dialect [PDF]
Scandinavian Journal of Urology, 2022 Paolo Gontero, Marko Babjuk
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What is invariant and what is optional in the realization of a FOCUSED word? A cross-dialectal study of Swedish sentences with moving focus [PDF]
Proceeding of Fourth International Conference on Spoken Language Processing. ICSLP '96, 2002 State-of-the-art speech recognition systems handle continuous speech and are speaker-independent. However, the linguistic information conveyed in the intonational contour is neglected. To be able to fully recognize speech, this information must be interpreted. To this end, explicit knowledge of dialectal and individual variation is required.
Robert Eklund
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South Swedish diphthongisation: an articulographic and acoustic study of /u:/ in the Malmöhus dialect [PDF]
, 2012 We investigated lip and tongue movements of diphthongisation of /uː/ in the Malmöhus dia- lect, which is spoken in the very south of Swe- den. Articulographic and acoustic data of ten native speakers were collected and analysed. Acoustic analysis revealed fairly stable F1 and F3, but a considerable F2 movement through- out the diphthongisation ...
Johan Frid +2 more
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Quantity and preaspiration in Northern Swedish dialects [PDF]
Speech Prosody 2002, 2002 Pär Wretling +2 more
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NOT YET-Constructions in the Swedish Skellefteå Dialect
, 2020 Expressions such as not yet, already, still and no longer belong to a category called Phasal Polarity (Phasal Polarity), and express phase, polarity and speaker expectations. In European languages, these often appear as phasal adverbs. However, in the Skellefteå dialect, spoken in northern Sweden, another type of construction is also used to express ...
Jill Zachrisson
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