This work is part of the effort to develop a speech recognition system for Brazilian Portuguese. The resources for the training and test stages of this system, such as corpora, pronunciation dictionary, language and acoustic models, are publicly available. Here, an application programming interface is proposed in order to facilitate using the opensource Julius speech decoder. Performance tests ...

In order to better teach pronunciation to students, it is necessary to gain a better appreciation of the types of pronunciation patterns and issues that Japanese speakers encounter when attempting to speak in English. To highlight some of these issues, a sample dialogue between two Japanese learners was recorded and analyzed for segmental and suprasegmental features. The analysis revealed that ...

Teaching Chinese as a foreign language is very important part of teaching language, and morphemes account for large proportion characters. In this paper, questionnaire survey on the cognition was conducted each grade students in School International Cultural Education Heilongjiang University. Through survey, it concluded that international culture circle non-Chinese affect at primary stage, stu...

The present study aimed at the investigation of the efficacy of computer-assisted instruction, with the purpose of treating the disorders related to the pronunciation and the delay in the Verbal and the language of 7-8 year old children (whether normal or exceptional). The current experimental study was conducted adopting pretest -posttest control group design. The statistical population of thi...

Many beginning-level Chinese learners, particularly those whose mother tongue is not a tone language find it challenging to learn Chinese pronunciations and tones. Yet pronunciation practice in formal language class settings is limited. Therefore, it has become necessary to develop computer-assisted and adaptive training systems to help learners practice Chinese pronunciation outside of class. ...

Pronunciation modeling for large vocabulary speech recognition attempts to improve recognition accuracy by identifying and modeling pronunciations that are not in the ASR systems pronunciation lexicon. Pronunciation variability in spontaneous Mandarin is studied using the newly created CASS corpus of phonetically annotated spontaneous speech. Pronunciation modeling techniques developed for Engl...

In this paper, we investigated the parameters for determining the degree of pronunciation improvement by using the formant comparison method. Many speech parameters have been studied to identify inaccurate pronunciation features. Generally, the method of grasping the inaccurate pronunciation is analyzed by using the change of pitch and formant. Formants have various information such as the indi...

Qath'i and zhanni in Usul fiqh are used to explain the source texts of Islamic law, be it al-Qur'an hadith two respects, namely al-tsubut (existence) or al-wurud (the arrival truth) al-dalalah (interpretation). In context qath'i zhanny al-wurud, scholars agree that Qur'an mutawatir qath'i. However, they differ terms from side al-dalalah. Ushul state if a religious text contains only one clear m...