This work explores the effect of mismatches between adults’ and children’s speech due to differences in various acoustic correlates on the automatic speech recognition performance under mismatched conditions. The different correlates studied in this work include the pitch, the speaking rate, the glottal parameters (open quotient, return quotient, and speech quotient), and the formant frequencie...

Introduction: Fundamental notions of mapping hypothesis and canonicity were scrutinized in Persian-speaking aphasics.  Methods: To this end, the performance of four age-, education-, and gender matched Persian-speaking Broca's patients and eight matched healthy controls in diverse complex structures were compared via the conduction of two tasks of syntactic comprehension and grammaticality jud...

The ability to efficiently speak in public is an essential asset for many professions and is used in everyday life. As such, tools enabling the improvement of public speaking performance and the assessment and mitigation of anxiety related to public speaking would be very useful. Multimodal interaction technologies, such as computer vision and embodied conversational agents, have recently been ...

measuring the performance of a production system has been an important task in management for purposes of control, planning, etc. lord kelvin said :“when you can measure what you are speaking about, and express it in numbers, you know something about it; but when you cannot measure it, when you cannot express it in numbers, your knowledge is of a meager and unsatisfactory kind.” hence, manageme...

Good public speaking skills are essential in many professions as well as everyday life, but speech anxiety is a common problem. While it is established that public speaking training in virtual reality (VR) is effective, comprehensive studies on the underlying factors that contribute to this success are rare. The “quality evaluation of user-system interaction in virtual reality” framework for ev...

A learner corpus is a useful resource for developing automatic assessment techniques for implementation in a computer-assisted language learning system. However, presently, learner corpora are only helpful in terms of evaluating the accuracy of learner output (speaking and writing). Therefore, the present study proposes a learner corpus annotated with evaluation results regarding the accuracy a...

OBJECTIVES to examine the association of language (English vs Spanish), and commonly used measures of memory and word fluency among older adults. DESIGN cross-sectional. SETTING community-based settings in New York City, including senior centres and residential complexes. SUBJECTS four hundred and twenty independently living adults aged 60 or older (mean 73.8 years). METHODS participant...

The aim of this preliminary study was to examine the feasibility of a rapid automatic naming (RAN) task for young Spanish–English speaking dual language learners (DLLs) and to examine the relationship between children’s performance on RAN and other standardized language and literacy assessments. A total of 275 Spanish–English speaking children in kindergarten and first grade attempted a RAN tas...

PURPOSE To investigate how auditory working memory relates to speech perception performance by Mandarin-speaking cochlear implant (CI) users. METHOD Auditory working memory and speech perception was measured in Mandarin-speaking CI and normal-hearing (NH) participants. Working memory capacity was measured using forward digit span and backward digit span; working memory efficiency was measured...

There are a number of factors which influence the success of learning foreign languageincluding students’ learning styles. This study investigated language learning styles of IranianEFL learners and their class achievement. To this end, sixty female intermediate learners ofinstruction and different ages (15-25), studying at a language institute in Rasht city wereasked to take part in the study....