Information of speech units like vowels, consonants and syllables can be a kind of knowledge used in text-independent Short Utterance Speaker Recognition (SUSR) in a similar way as in textdependent speaker recognition. In such tasks, data for each speech unit, especially at the time of recognition, is often not enough. Hence, it is not practical to use the full set of speech units because some ...

For any given utterance out of what we can loosely call context, there is usually more than one possible interpretation. A speaker's utterance of an elliptical expression, like the gure \twelve fteen", might have a diierent meaning depending on the discourse context, the way the conversation has evolved until that point, and the previous speaker's utterance. If this is a problem for any human l...

0.Introduction In recent years, the number of linguists who refer to notions like focus and ground have grown rapidly. 1 Many interesting articles have appeared that show that we cannot give a complete syntactic, morphological or prosodic analysis without taking such notions into acccount. By the focus of an utterance I understand the new information that the speaker wants to convey. In contras...

Speech recognition is the new emerging technology in the field of computer and artificial intelligence. It has changed the way we communicate with computer and other intelligent devices of same calibre like smart phones. It is a major area of interest for research in this field which is related to artificial intelligence. In this paper the overview of this technology and its current implementat...

In this paper an improved method for detection of focus accents is presented. The focus detection algorithm works with a rule-based approach. The main information source is the fundamental frequency F0 of an utterance. Results for the original version are 79 % recognition rate and 67 % average recognition rate for spontaneous speech. By integration of additional information like phrase boundari...

An acoustic analysis of a German dialogue corpus showed that the sound qualities and durations of fricatives, vocoids, and diphthongs at the ends of question and statement utterances varied systematically with the utterance-final intonation segments, which were high-rising in the questions and terminal-falling in the statements. The ways in which the variations relate to phenomena like sibilant...