Perceptual Associations Between Words and Speaker Age

A perceptual study of speaker age

The present paper examines listeners’ ability to judge speaker age from stimuli consisting of phonated isolated words, and also suggests subdivision (categorisation) of voices into typical and atypical groups, depending on the listeners’ age estimating abilities.

Automatic estimation of perceptual age using speaker modeling techniques

This paper proposes a technique to estimate speakers’ perceptual age automatically only with acoustic information of their utterances. Firstly, we experimentally collected data of how old individual speakers in databases sound to listeners. Speech samples of approximately 500 male speakers with a very wide range of the real age were presented to listeners, who were asked to estimate the age onl...

Associations between colors and affective words related to tourist attractions

We have developed a tourist map system based on the way people create associations between colors and affective words related to tourist attractions. This study examines such associations. In the first experiment, a participant was required to choose one color from among the seven rainbow colors and one gray-scale level from among seven gray-scale levels to associate with an affective word rela...

the relationship between listening self efficacy, listening comprehension, gende, and age in male and female english learners

چکیده هدف اصلی تحقیق حاضر مطالعه و بررسی رابطه بین خودکارامدی شنیداری با درک شنیداری بود.همچنین رابطه درک شنیداری وخودکارآمدی شنیداری با جنسیت و رابطه خودکارامدی شنیداری با سن نیز مورد بررسی قرار گرفت.تعداد شصت زبان اموز-سی دختر و سی پسر- کانون زبان ایران در مرکز خرم آباد به صورت تصادفی انتخاب شدند. روشهای به کار رفته در جمع اوری داده ها عبارت بودند ازبرسشنامه خودکارآمدی و تست درک شنیداری لانگ...

Speaker Independent Speech Recognition Using Hidden Markov Models for Persian Isolated Words