In this paper we present the first public Japanese speech corpus for large vocabulary continuous speech recognition (LVCSR) technology, which we have titled JNAS (Japanese Newspaper Article Sentences). We designed it to be comparable to the corpora used in the American and European LVCSR projects. The corpus contains speech recordings (60 hrs.) and their orthographic transcriptions for 306 spea...

Primary Progressive Aphasia (PPA) is a degenerative condition characterized by the progressive loss of language function. In PPA, aphasia most prominent deficit at onset. On other hand, memory deficits are hallmark Alzheimer's disease (AD). The first aim study was to establish differences on neuropsychological testing and connected speech production between Greek-speaking individuals with AD PP...

The information technologi’s development has been very sophisticated and easy, so that it becomes a lifestyle for people throughout the world without exception Indonesia which also affected by of this technology. One benefits technology is emergence various kinds social networking sites or media such as Facebook, Twitter Instagram. Technological developments isn’t only have positive impact, but...

A synchronous speech study investigates effects on pause duration of prosodic phrases of different length. The goal is to examine local and distant effects of prosodic phrase length on pause duration. Subjects read 24 English sentences varying along the parameters: a) length in syllables (long or short) of the intonation phrase immediately following a target pause and b) length in syllables (lo...

Non-native, or 'foreign-accented,' speech deviates from native pronunciation norms, and these deviations can cause perceptual difficulty for listeners. However, there is reason to believe that non-native speech can be learned by the adult perceptual system. The present study investigated perceptual learning of foreignaccented speech with very limited experience. Sixteen auditory sentences were ...

This paper describes two empirical experiments investigating the perception of embedded audible hyperlinks, designed using speech and non-speech cues, and their effect on the comprehension of synthetic speech. Results from the first experiment showed high accuracy levels of hyperlink perception and differences in comprehension performance between sentences with hyperlinks and sentences without ...

This paper describes two empirical experiments investigating the perception of embedded audible hyperlinks, designed using speech and non-speech cues, and their effect on the comprehension of synthetic speech. Results from the first experiment showed high accuracy levels of hyperlink perception and differences in comprehension performance between sentences with hyperlinks and sentences without ...

The utterance units that serve as input to speech translation and/or spoken dialogue systems that handle spontaneous speech are not always sentences. However, the processing units of language translation are sentences. Since we do not have enough knowledge about the sentences of spoken languages, we use the term \language processing units" instead of \sentences." First, using conventionally int...

This paper describes two empirical experiments investigating the perception of embedded audible hyperlinks, designed using speech and non-speech cues, and their effect on the comprehension of synthetic speech. Results from the first experiment showed high accuracy levels of hyperlink perception and differences in comprehension performance between sentences with hyperlinks and sentences without ...

PURPOSE To investigate the influence of speech sample of spontaneous conversation or sentences repetition on intra and inter-rater hypernasality reliability. METHODS One hundred and twenty audio recorded speech samples (60 containing spontaneous conversation and 60 containing repeated sentences) of individuals with repaired cleft palate±lip, both genders, aged between 6 and 52 years old (mean...