Prosodic Features
Word Fragments Identification Using Acoustic Prosodic Features in Conversational Speech
... Word fragments pose serious problems for speech recognizers. Accurate identification of word fragments will not only improve recogni- tion accuracy, but also be very helpful for dis- fluency detection algorithm because ...
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Acoustic, Phonetic and Prosodic Features of Parkinson’s disease Speech
... usual features for discriminating PD speech were not always found to be statistically ...and prosodic features towards classifying PD speech shows that dynamic features are of highest ...
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Evaluation of linguistic and prosodic features for detection of Alzheimer’s disease in Turkish conversational speech
... of features derived from the speech signal and transcriptions of Alzheimer’s patients and control ...proposed features, independent of the age, education level, and gen- der of the ...subjects. ...
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The effect of bilateral subthalamic nucleus deep brain stimulation (STN-DBS) on the acoustic and prosodic features in patients with Parkinson’s disease: A study protocol for the first trial on Iranian patients
... tual features of voice which is associated with reduced noise, reduced dysphonia, and increased F0 ...and prosodic features even before STN-DBS ...
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Disfluency Detection with a Semi Markov Model and Prosodic Features
... with features targeting characteristics unique to speech re- ...incorporate prosodic features over silences and relative word duration into our semi-CRF model, resulting in further perfor- mance ...
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Discriminative Prosodic Features to Assess the Dysarthria Severity Levels
... This paper presents an approach for assessing the severity levels of dysarthria by combining Linear Discriminant Analysis (LDA) with two classification methods: the Gaussian Mixture Model (GMM) and the Support Vector ...
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Question Detection in Spoken Conversations Using Textual Conversations
... the prosodic features did not lead to an improvement, nor did training on Wiki using “fake” prosody features predicted based on MRDA ...separate prosodic and lexical classi- fiers, inspired by ...
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Robust Features for Automatic Text-Independent Emotion Recognition from Speech
... The aim in Paper III was to investigate the influence of emotion on very short stressed words. Short stressed words are routinely utilized in voice commands and when acknowledging messages with voice. In the paper, a ...
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Predicting Student Emotions in Computer Human Tutoring Dialogues
... lexical features can be used to automatically predict student emotion in computer-human tutoring ...cal features outperform acoustic-prosodic ...identifier features typically also im- proves ...
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N Best Rescoring Based on Pitch accent Patterns
... (different prosodic events were modeled separately and combined with conventional ...and prosodic features are more tightly coupled and jointly ...the prosodic knowledge and to combine with ...
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Prosody of Intonation and Focus in Malayalam English with Acoustic Experimental Evidences
... This paper demonstrates an experimental study on prosody of intonation and information structure in Malayalam English. Human speech always carries prosodic features such as stress and intonation. It ...
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What Decisions Have You Made?: Automatic Decision Detection in Meeting Conversations
... of features used in this study: unigrams (LX1), prosodic (PROS), contextual (CONT), and topical (TOPIC) ...the prosodic fea- tures alone, since the prosodic features can be gen- erated ...
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Analysis of the Roles and the Dynamics of Breathy and Whispery Voice Qualities in Dialogue Speech
... Breathiness in low-pitch intervals, accompanied by a soft voice quality, appears in the expression of politeness, gentleness or tenderness, which can be considered as attitu- dinal behaviors of the speaker. Breathiness ...
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Speech emotion classification using SVM and MLP on prosodic and voice quality features
... Recently, many studies have been undertaken to find a suitable classifier for speech emotion. For example the accuracy of support vector machine classifier was investigated using a prosodic feature related to ...
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Pronunciation: Teach or ignore?
... related prosodic features are amongst the most important criteria for native speakers to judge the quality of a learner’s English pronunciation (Hoorn, Smakman & Foster ...
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Applying prosodic speech features in mental health care: An exploratory study in a life review intervention for depression
... speech features during an intervention, since the speech from the recall of autobiographical memories provides strong pro- sodic speech changes (Cohen, Hong, & Guevara, 2010) and the expression of emotions ...
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EMOTION SPEECH RECOGNITION SYSTEM FOR ISOLATED WORDS
... of features which provides the relevant information for performing a desired task without the need of the full size data but using the reduced ...suited features carrying information about emotion is ...
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The effect of prosody awareness training on the performance of consecutive interpretation by Farsi-English interpreter trainees: an experimental study
... regard, prosodic features are very important in making the speech ...that prosodic feature errors are barriers to the intelligibility of speech (Munro and Derwing ...
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'Children are just lingual': The development of phonology in British Sign Language (BSL)
... This paper explores three universal tendencies in spoken language acquisition: consonant and vowel harmony, cluster reduction and systemic simplification, using a corpus of 1018 signs from a single child exposed to ...
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The level of awareness and production of English lexical stress among English language teacher trainees in Malaysia
... local features of English pronunciation are not focused upon in teacher ...the prosodic features of Malaysian English, especially on lexical stress (Tan, ...that features of Malaysian English ...
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