Inference is an important strategy that could be applied in listening activities. It could help one to grasp the meanings of an oral message by analysing textual and contextual information. When the listener has difficulties in activities because of his poor linguistic skills, it is strongly recommended that he apply the inference strategy efficiently. But how and to what degree does this strat...

Voice conversion aims to modify the characteristics of one speaker to make it sound like spoken by another speaker without changing the language content. This task has attracted considerable attention and various approaches have been proposed since two decades ago. The evaluation of voice conversion approaches, usually through time-intensive subject listening tests, requires a huge amount of hu...

Listening skill is one of the skills that should be mastered. However, many students have difficulty at listening sessions, especially in understanding what speaker saying. It because they lack background knowledge to support their listening. To improve skill, a suitable strategy needed. The use songs classroom can increase students’ interest. Therefore, this study aimed finding information on ...

Infants have higher pure-tone thresholds than adults. One explanation is that infants do not adopt the frequency-selective listening strategy that adults use when detecting tones. In contrast to other models of infants' immature sensitivity, the listening strategy account predicts that infants will be more sensitive to broadband sounds, relative to adults. Infants 7-9 months old were tested in ...

Automatic accompaniment systems are comprised of realtime score following systems that in reaction to recognition of events in a score from a human performer, launch necessary actions for the accompaniment section. While the realtime detection of score events out of live musicians’ performance has been widely studied in the literature, score accompaniment (or the reactive part of the process) h...