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Vowel Phoneme Segmentation for Speaker Identification Using an ANN-Based Framework

open access: yesJournal of Intelligent Systems, 2013
Vowel phonemes are a part of any acoustic speech signal. Vowel sounds occur in speech more frequently and with higher energy. Therefore, vowel phoneme can be used to extract different amounts of speaker discriminative information in situations where ...
Sarma Mousmita, Sarma Kandarpa Kumar
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Softness of consonants in the oral speech of Russian-speaking bilinguals in Germany and monolinguals in Russia

open access: yesRussian Language Studies, 2023
The softness of Russian consonants in the oral speech of two generations of Russian-speaking bilinguals in Germany and monolinguals in Russia is explored. The relevance of the problem is due to the importance of studying the inherited Russian language of
Anastasia Yu. Vikhrova   +1 more
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Vowel harmony

open access: yes, 2019
Vowel harmony refers to the phonological phenomenon that requires vowels in certain morphological or prosodic domains to agree in specific phonological features. This chapter presents a thorough revision of vowel harmony in southeastern peninsular Spanish, where the loss of some final consonants is compensated by opening the preceding vowel and the lax
Jiménez, Jesús, Lloret, Maria-Rosa
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Speaker-sex discrimination for voiced and whispered vowels at short durations [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
Whispered vowels, produced with no vocal fold vibration, lack the periodic temporal fine structure which in voiced vowels underlies the perceptual attribute of pitch (a salient auditory cue to speaker sex).
Smith, David R.R.
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Samogłoski ustne gwary kurpiowskiej

open access: yesSlavia Meridionalis, 2021
Oral Vowels in the Kurpie Dialect The aim of the article is a phonetic and acoustic description of stressed oral vowels occurring in the Kurpie dialect, depending on the gender and age of respondents.
Justyna Garczyńska
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Speech characteristics of monozygotic twins and a same-sex sibling: an acoustic case study of coarticulation patterns in read speech [PDF]

open access: yes, 2003
This case study reports on an acoustic investigation of the motor speech characteristics of a set of young adult male monozygotic (MZ) twins and compares them to those of an age- and sex-matched sibling who participated in the study 2 years later to ...
Rixon, E., Whiteside, S.P.
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Features of the evolution of the vowels of the first syllable of Finno-Ugric stem in the Mordovian languages

open access: yesФинно-угорский мир, 2018
The phonetic system is one of the most important aspects of the language. The study of the structure and features of this system allows tracing both the current state and the history of the development of a language.
Mihail V. Mosin, Natalya M. Mosina
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A SURVEY ON SEVERAL POTENTIALLY PROBLEMATIC AREAS OF PRONUNCIATION FOR IRANIAN EFL LEARNERS

open access: yesIndonesian EFL Journal, 2015
Almost all English language teachers get students to study grammar, vocabulary, etc., but some of these same teachers make little attempt to teach pronunciation in any overt way and only give attention to it in passing.
Amir Toghyani Khorasgani   +2 more
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Vowel duration issue in Civili [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
The main goal of this article is to define the problem of vowel duration in Civili (H12a). It shows that the so-called Civili vowel-length desperately needs to be re-examined, because previous works on the sound system of this language hardly explain a ...
Ndinga-Koumba-Binza, Hugues Steve
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Comparing human and machine vowel classification [PDF]

open access: yes, 2007
In this study we compare human ability to identify vowels with a machine learning approach. A perception experiment for 14 Hungarian vowels in isolation and embedded in a carrier word was accomplished, and a C4.5 decision tree was trained on the same ...
Mády, Katalin, Reichel, Uwe D.
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