This investigation compares dialect use by African American children differing in socioeconomic status (SES) and gender. Subjects were 5- and 6-year-old boys (n = 30) and girls (n = 36), who were kindergartners attending schools in the Metropolitan Detroit area. Comparisons of the amount of dialect in the children's spontaneous discourse revealed systematic differences relative to SES and gende...

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Sequence-to-sequence models provide a simple and elegant solution for building speech recognition systems by folding separate components of a typical system, namely acoustic (AM), pronunciation (PM) and language (LM) models into a single neural network. In this work, we look at one such sequence-to-sequence model, namely listen, attend and spell (LAS) [1], and explore the possibility of trainin...

In this paper, we propose TunDiaWN (Tunisian dialect Wordnet) a lexical resource for the dialect language spoken in Tunisia. Our TunDiaWN construction approach is founded, in one hand, on a corpus based method to analyze and extract Tunisian dialect words. A clustering technique is adapted and applied to mine the possible relations existing between the Tunisian dialect extracted words and to gr...

PURPOSE To investigate regional dialect variation in the vowel systems of typically developing 8- to 12-year-old children. METHOD Thirteen vowels in isolated h_d words were produced by 94 children and 93 adults (males and females). All participants spoke American English and were born and raised in 1 of 3 distinct dialect regions in the United States: western North Carolina (Southern dialect)...

Phonetic differences always exist between any Chinese dialect and standard Chinese (Putonghua). In this paper, a method, named automatic dialect-specific Initial/Final (IF) generation, is proposed to deal with the issue of phonemic difference which can automatically produce the dialect-specific units based on model distance measure. A dialect-specific decision tree regrowing method is also prop...

The variation in speech due to dialect is a factor which significantly impacts speech system performance. In this study, we investigate effective methods of combining acoustic and language information to take advantage of (i) speaker based acoustic traits as well as (ii) content based word selection across the text sequence. For acoustics, a GMM based system is employed and for text based diale...

This paper presents the results of experiments in which machine learning techniques were applied to the problem of determining regional dialect boundaries. Specifically, decision trees classification and k-means clustering were applied to a corpus of phonetic measurements taken from a large survey of North American English vowels. Pairwise classification and clustering experiments were done for...

This paper presents our work in acquiring a Malay dialect translation and speech synthesis corpus. In this study, an architecture of speech corpus acquisition, which including Malay dialect translation and Malay dialect grapheme to phoneme (G2P), was proposed. The pronunciation dictionary for dialectal Malay was generated through G2P tool. As dialectal Malay is considered as scarce resource, di...