The broad aim of our research in speech communication is to gain an understanding of the nature of the processes of human speech production and perception and to learn how these processes are acquired. A practical aim is to utilize knowledge gained through study of speech communication to devise procedures that will permit limited communication between men and machines by means of speech. Sever...

background and aim: speech understanding almost never occurs in silence. verbal communication often occurs in environments where multiple speakers are talking. in such environments, babbling noise masks speech comprehension. consonants, in comparison to vowels, are more sensitive to noise masking. consonants provide most acoustic information needed for comprehending the meaning of the word. sin...

Abstract Speech enables easy human-to-human communication as well human-to-machine interaction. However, the quality of speech degrades due to background noise in environment, such drone embedded during search and rescue operations. Similarly, helicopter noise, airplane station reduce speech. enhancement algorithms resulting a crystal clear noise-free conversation. For many applications, it is ...

The long-term goal of this research is to develop tactual aids for persons who are profoundly deaf or deaf-blind to serve as a substitute for hearing in the reception of speech and environmental sounds. This research can contribute to improved speech reception and production, language competence, and environmental-sound recognition in such individuals. This research is also relevant to the deve...

The objectives of our work are to further our understanding of (a) the process whereby human listeners decode an acoustic speech signal into a sequence of discrete linguistic symbols, such as phonemes; and (b) the process whereby human talkers encode a sequence of discrete linguistic symbols into an acoustic signal. Current research activities related to these objectives include studies, aided ...

Since even before the time of Alexander Graham Bell’s revolutionary invention, engineers and scientists have studied the phenomenon of speech communication with an eye on creating more efficient and effective systems of human-to-human and human-to-machine communication. Starting in the 1960s, digital signal processing (DSP), assumed a central role in speech studies, and today DSP is the key to ...

16.0 Speech Communication Academic and Research Staff Prof. K.N. Stevens, Prof. J. Allen, Prof. M. Halle, Prof. S.J. Keyser, Dr. C. Bickley, Dr. S. Boyce, Dr. C. Chapin Ringo, Dr. C. Espy-Wilson, Dr. D.H. Klatt, Dr. S. Manuel, Dr. J.S. Perkell, Dr. S. Seneff, Dr. S. Shattuck-Hufnagel, Dr. V.W. Zue, M. Cohen, D.H. Kaufman, N. Lauritzen, M. Phillips Collaborating Scientists Dr. A. ni Chasaide,' D...

The use of speech is expected to make the human-computer interaction more natural and efficient than it has been so far. Many successful speech applications have been constructed, but speech is still far from being the most common input and output modalities. In order to successfully construct speech applications, system designers and implementers must know the nature of speech, the characteris...

Communicative language use largely entails regular patterns consisting of pre-constructed phrases or sequences. These sequences have been examined by many researchers to find the situation-based formulas which may help L2 learners follow a possibly more target-like speaking system. This study, therefore, explored two categories of formulaic expressions including speech formulas and situation-bo...