oronasal region, as an important organ of taste and smell, being respected for its impact on the resonace, which is crucial for any normal speech production. different congenital, acquired and/or developmentalpdefect, may not only have impacts on the quality of respiration, phonation, resonance, also on the process of a normal speech. this article will enable readers to have more focus in such ...

We propose a non-humanlike spoken dialogue design, which consists of two elements: non-humanlike turn-taking and non-humanlike acknowledgment. Two experimental studies are reported in this paper. The first study shows that the proposed non-humanlike spoken dialogue design is effective for reducing speech collisions. It also presents pieces of evidence that show quick humanlike turn-taking is le...

During speech acquisition, children form quick and rough hypotheses about the meaning of a new word after only a single exposure-a process dubbed "fast mapping." Here we provide evidence that a border collie, Rico, is able to fast map. Rico knew the labels of over 200 different items. He inferred the names of novel items by exclusion learning and correctly retrieved those items right away as we...

For simplified hearing compensation, which combines a highfrequency boost, pitch shift and speech rate conversion, two quick individual fitting procedures, based on subjective assessments, are proposed. Since conventional individual fitting procedures impose enormous hearing comparisons on a user for decision of an appropriate parameter set, the proposed procedures split the fitting process int...

Fundamental frequency estimation of monophonic acoustic signals is a very rich and active field of research. Similarly to a lot of signal processing techniques, fundamental estimation was first developped for, and applied to speech signals. One can literally find hundreds of methods in [Hess83]. It is also interesting to note that [Rabiner76], and [deCheveigné01] made an attempt to compare diff...

Johan Kildal and Stephen A. Brewster Glasgow Interactive Systems Group Department of Computing Science University of Glasgow Glasgow, G12 8QQ, UK {johank, stephen}@dcs.gla.ac.uk www.multivis.org Tackling the problem of browsing complex tabular numerical data sets nonvisually, TableVis is an interface that provides techniques to obtain quick overviews through data sonification, as well as to obt...

Research Topic This research aims at understanding the challenges involved in running Wizard of OZ experiments and searches for an optimal software interface supporting the actions of the wizard. Research Description Combining novel speech and language technologies into systems across diverse domains poses significant software engineering challenges. Assuring the usability of the resulting appl...

We explored the relations between task difficulty and speech time in picture description tasks. Six native speakers of Mandarin Chinese (CH group) and six native speakers or Indo-European languages (IE group) produced quick and accurate verbal descriptions of pictures in a self-paced manner. The pictures always involved two objects, a plate and one of the three objects (a stick, a fork, or a kn...

This study compared unilateral and bilateral aided speech recognition in background noise in 28 patients being fitted with amplification. Aided QuickSIN (Quick Speech-in-Noise test) scores were obtained for bilateral amplification and for unilateral amplification in each ear. In addition, right-ear directed and left-ear directed recall on the Dichotic Digits Test (DDT) was obtained from each pa...