Automatically evaluating pronunciation quality of non-native speech has seen tremendous success in both research and commercial settings, with applications in L2 learning. In this paper, submitted for the INTERSPEECH 2015 Degree of Nativeness Sub-Challenge, this problem is posed under a challenging crosscorpora setting using speech data drawn from multiple speakers from a variety of language ba...

This paper proposes a speaker specific source information at different levels.speaker recognition system exploits the source information (LP residual) present at different levels namely subsegmental, segmental &suprasegmental. The subsegmental analysis considers LP residual in blocks of 5 msec with shift of 2.5 msec to extract speaker information. The segmental analysis extracts speaker informa...

Introduction During the first year, infants are highly attuned to suprasegmental aspects of speech. This sensitivity may be exploited in the infant’s segmentation of the speech stream into clausal units. Hirsh-Pasek, Kemler Nelson, Jusczyk, Wright Cassidy, Druss and Kennedy (1987) examined young infants’ sensitivity to the pauses and other suprasegmental cues that coincided with clausal boundar...

The present study investigated the training benefits of segmental vs. suprasegmental aspects for intelligibility and comprehensibility spoken English as a Foreign Language (EFL). Five groups lower intermediate EFL learners were formed by random assignment. A pretest speaking skills, intelligibility, learners’ speech confirmed that five homogeneous before starting program. control group listened...

Abstract In this paper we examine several features derived from the speech signal for the purpose of identification of speaker or language from the speech signal. Most of the current systems for speaker and language identification use spectral features from short segments of speech. There are additional features which can be derived from the residual of the speech signal, which correspond to th...

It has been posited that the role of prosody in lexical segmentation is elevated when the speech signal is degraded or unreliable. Using predictions from Cutler and Norris' [J. Exp. Psychol. Hum. Percept. Perform. 14, 113-121 (1988)] metrical segmentation strategy hypothesis as a framework, this investigation examined how individual suprasegmental and segmental cues to syllabic stress contribut...

Pitch, as a basic property of sounds and an important suprasegmental feature speech, exerts its effect on many linguistic aspects at different levels. The current study mainly focuses pragmatic meaning realized by phonetic forms, namely the accent placement tune. By observing pitch curves various renderings utterances from tool Praat analyzing these typical instances, it is concluded that great...