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The Role of A Surgeon in Restoring the Senses & in Biomedical Engineering

open access: yesANZ Journal of Surgery, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This review is based on my 2025 Jepson Lecture and outlines my personal journey to restore hearing in people with a severe sensorineural hearing loss. My dream started as a 5‐year‐old as I told my kindergarten teacher when I grow up ‘I want to fix ears’ because my father is deaf. The journey resulted in a career in surgery followed by auditory
Graeme M. Clark
wiley   +1 more source

Exploring the phonetic sources of the North Korean dialect accent produced by North Korean refugees in Seoul

open access: yesFrontiers in Language Sciences
This study explored the acoustic characteristics of second-dialect speech that give rise to its accent perception. Specifically, North Korean (NK) dialect speech samples were collected from NK refugees in Seoul, South Korea.
Hwanmin Jung, Jeahyuk Oh, Jeong-Im Han
doaj   +1 more source

Estoñol, a computer-assisted pronunciation training tool for Spanish L1 speakers to improve the pronunciation and perception of Estonian vowels

open access: yesEesti ja Soome-ugri Keeleteaduse Ajakiri, 2019
Over the past few years the number of online language teaching materials for non-native speakers of Estonian has increased. However, they focus mainly on vocabulary and pay little attention to pronunciation.
Katrin Leppik, Cristian Tejedor-García
doaj   +1 more source

Vowel Imaging

open access: yes, 2015
New York ; casl ; pub ; 2759 ...
Lee A, Zharkova N, Gibbon F
openaire   +3 more sources

Social voice judgement is dyadic: Acoustic typicality and interpersonal similarity interact

open access: yesBritish Journal of Psychology, EarlyView.
Abstract The formation of social first impressions from voices is a central component of everyday social interactions. While past research has primarily investigated the effect of bottom‐up voice acoustic on social voice judgements, here we widen the perspective and investigate how bottom‐up acoustic and top‐down interpersonal similarity interactively ...
Selma Bruggisser   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Neural and behavioral investigations into timbre perception

open access: yesFrontiers in Systems Neuroscience, 2013
Timbre is the attribute that distinguishes sounds of equal pitch, loudness and duration. It contributes to our perception and discrimination of different vowels and consonants in speech, instruments in music and environmental sounds.
Stephen Michael Town   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source

The effect of perceptual training on the learning of english vowels by brazilian portuguese speakers [PDF]

open access: yes, 2007
Tese (doutorado) - Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Centro de Comunicação e Expressão. Programa de Pós-Graduação em Letras/Inglês e Literatura Correspondente.Pesquisas recentes mostram que o treinamento perceptual é uma ferramenta eficaz para ...
Oliveira, Denize Nobre
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FaceMamba: Geometry‐Aware Mamba for Efficient Speech‐Driven 3D Facial Animation

open access: yesComputer Graphics Forum, EarlyView.
Abstract Speech‐driven 3D facial animation plays a pivotal role in immersive digital human applications. Recent works have explored Mamba‐based sequence modeling as an efficient alternative to Transformer, but they often suffer from limited cross‐modal alignment and insufficient control over fine‐grained facial deformations.
Yifan Ge   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Identification of Mild Cognitive Impairment From Speech in Swedish Using Deep Sequential Neural Networks

open access: yesFrontiers in Neurology, 2018
While people with mild cognitive impairment (MCI) portray noticeably incipient memory difficulty in remembering events and situations along with problems in decision making, planning, and finding their way in familiar environments, detailed ...
Charalambos Themistocleous   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Prosody and melody in vowel disorder [PDF]

open access: yes, 1999
The paper explores the syllabic and segmental dimensions of phonological vowel disorder. The independence of the two dimensions is illustrated by the case study of an English-speaking child presenting with an impairment which can be shown to have a ...
Watson, J, Bates, S, Harris, J
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