Text-to-speech synthesis has many applications in the area of assistive technologies for visually impaired people. Some applications require multilingual text-to-speech synthesis. In this case, multilingual text analysis and voice switching are desirable. In this paper an improved functional version (beta) of a software component for polyglot text-to-speech synthesis is presented. Beta testing ...

abstract the role of l1 in second/foreign language learning has been the subject of much debate and controversy. this article reports on a piece of research carried out in a junior high school in isfahan, iran. this study was conducted to examine the effect of using translation from l1 to l2 on the improvement of efl learners' language accuracy. to fulfill the purpose of the study, 62 stud...

In this paper, we describe different techniques to improve natural language call routing: boosting, relevance feedback, discriminative training, and constrained minimization. Their common goal is to reweight the data in order to let the system focus on documents judged hard to classify by a single classifier. These approaches are evaluated with the common vector-based classifier and also with t...

This research aims to investigate differences in speech comprehension between children with specific language impairment (SLI) and their developmentally normal peers, and the relationship between speech comprehension and emotional/behavioral problems on Achenbach's Child Behavior Checklist (CBCL) and Caregiver Teacher's Report Form (C-TRF) according to the DSMIV The clinical sample comprised 97...

There is a growing literature investigating the relationship between oscillatory neural dynamics measured using electroencephalography (EEG) and/or magnetoencephalography (MEG), and sentence-level language comprehension. Recent proposals have suggested a strong link between predictive coding accounts of the hierarchical flow of information in the brain, and oscillatory neural dynamics in the be...

The type system of object-oriented programming languages should enable the description of models that originate from object-oriented analysis and design. In this paper, the BETA type system is generalised, resulting in direct language support for a number of new modelling aspects. The increased expressive power is obtained from a synergy between general block structure and the generalised type ...