This paper develops a bilingual Thai-English TTS system from two monolingual HMM-based TTS systems. An English Nagoya HMM-based TTS system (HTS) provides correct pronunciations of English words but the voice is different from the voice in a Thai HTS system. We apply a CSMAPLR adaptation technique to make the English voice sounds more similar to the Thai voice. To overcome a phone mapping proble...

the research entitled “a comparative study of saadi’s golestan and samuel johnson’s rasselas” is based on the inclination of 18th century writer and theorist johnson on towards rich persian literature and outstanding resemblance of golestan and rassales from the structural, moral, philosophical points of view. the findings are based on two hypotheses: (1) has there been any basis for johnson’...

presenting a brief description of bilingualism and its correlation with cognitive development and 3rd language learning, the present research primarily aims to compare the knowledge of english vocabulary and grammar in a sample of monolingual and bilingual high school students (fourth graders) of fars and khuzestan provinces in iran. to fulfill this objective, 448 monolingual and bilingual stud...

In the past several years, we’ve been developing a high performance OCR engine for machine printed Chinese/English documents. In this paper, we present two innovative techniques that contribute to the high efficiency in recognition of the mixed Chinese/English text line. They are (1) a progressive search strategy based on character verification, and (2) a tree-based fast match technique with a ...

this paper was aimed at investigating the persian-speaking translation trainees perception of politeness of english request strategies. they judged the strategies for requesting (e.g. can, could, will, do, etc.) using the paired comparison method. the findings showed great divergence between the judgment of english native speakers with respect to the degree of politeness of 14 generic request s...

Sentiment classification system relies on high-quality emotional resources. However, these resources are imbalanced in different languages. The way of how to leverage rich labeled data of one language (source language) for the sentiment classification of resource-poor language (target language), namely cross-lingual sentiment classification (CLSC), becomes a focus topic. This paper utilizes ric...

This study examined the substantive and predictive validity facets of the University Entrance Examination for English Major (UEEEM) students. To that aim, 111 English major students were recruited to report their scores on each of the subtests of the test as well as their grade point average. Sequential multiple regressions and factor analysis were used in the analysis of the data. Results ackn...