Speaker Normalization Using Cortical Strip Maps: A Neural Model for Steady State Vowel Identification [PDF]
, 2007 Auditory signals of speech are speaker-dependent, but representations of language meaning are speaker-independent. Such a transformation enables speech to be understood from different speakers.
Ames, Heather, Grossberg, Stephen
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THE PRINCIPLES OF PHONOLOGICAL WORD STRUCTURE COMPARISON OF RUSSIAN AND CHINESE LANGUAGES
Vestnik MGIMO-Universiteta, 2014 The article is devoted to the phonological structure of words of Russian and Chinese languages. With phonological point of view the word as a Central significant unit of language is a sequence of consonants and vowel phonemes.
Alexey N. Aleksakhin
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Transfer, similarity or lack of awareness? inconsistencies of German learners in the pronunciation of lot, thought, strut, palm and bath [PDF]
, 2012 The current study presents acoustic analyses of non-high back vowels and low central vowels in the lexical sets LOT, THOUGHT, STRUT, PALM and BATH as pronounced by German learners of English.
Kautzsch, Alexander
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Waveguide physical modeling of vocal tract acoustics: flexible formant bandwidth control from increased model dimensionality [PDF]
, 2006 Digital waveguide physical modeling is often used as an efficient representation of acoustical resonators such as the human vocal tract. Building on the basic one-dimensional (1-D) Kelly-Lochbaum tract model, various speech synthesis techniques ...
Howard, D M, Mullen, J, Murphy, D T
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Helping Turkish EFL Learners with the Pronunciation of Four General British Vowels
ELOPE, 2019 The paper presents a contrastive analysis of Turkish and English with respect to their vowel systems and orthography. The author then focuses on effective ways to teach four General British (GB) vowels, /i:/, /ɪ/, /ʊ/, and /u:/, to twenty Turkish ...
Serkan Şen
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Brownian dynamics for the vowel sounds of human language
Physical Review Research, 2020 We present a model for the evolution of vowel sounds in human languages, in which words behave as Brownian particles diffusing in acoustic space, interacting via the vowel sounds they contain.
J. Burridge, B. Vaux
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The influence of orthography on phonemic knowledge: An experimental investigation on German and Persian [PDF]
, 2019 This study investigated whether the phonological representation of a word is modulated by its orthographic representation in case of a mismatch between the two representations.
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A Contrastive Study on Korean and Cia-Cia Language Vowels Based on an Acoustic Experiment
Humaniora, 2021 The Cia-Cia language, which is spoken by around 79.000 people in the Bau-Bau area of Buton Island, does not have its own writing system. In 2009, the Korean alphabet, Hangeul, was approved by the Bau-Bau city government for transcribing Cia-Cia, owing to
Achmad Rio Dessiar
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Reducing Audible Spectral Discontinuities [PDF]
, 2001 In this paper, a common problem in diphone synthesis is discussed, viz., the occurrence of audible discontinuities at diphone boundaries. Informal observations show that spectral mismatch is most likely the cause of this phenomenon.We first set out to ...
Klabbers, Esther, Veldhuis, Raymond
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Vowel training experiments with a computer-based vowel training system [PDF]
The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 1994 In previous work signal processing algorithms were presented for real-time mapping of vowels to a two-dimensional display for articulation training [Beck and Zahorian, ICASSP-92, II, 241–244]. In this paper, a series of tests designed to evaluate the effectiveness of this display for vowel training are reported. Experiments were conducted with five non-
Stephen A. Zahorian, Neiyer S. Correal
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