speech emotion can add more information to speech in comparison to available textual information. however, it will also lead to some problems in speech recognition process. in a previous study, we depicted the substantial changes of speech parameters caused by speech emotion. therefore, in order to improve emotional speech recognition rate, in a first step, the effects of emotion on speech par...

Speech detection is an important first step for audio analysis on media contents, whose goal is to discriminate the presence of speech from non-speech. It remains a challenge owing to various sound sources included in media audio. In this work, we present a novel audio feature extraction method to reflect the acoustic characteristic of the media audio in the timefrequency domain. Since the degr...

The introduction of practice theory into sociolinguistics is an important recent development in the field. The community of practice provides a useful alternative to the speech-community model, which has limitations for language and gender researchers in particular. As an ethnographic, activitybased approach, the community of practice is of special value to researchers in language and gender be...

OBJECTIVES To identify the prevalence and family and community-level predictors of comorbid speech-language difficulties and socioemotional and behavioral (SEB) difficulties across a population of children at school entry. METHODS The School Entry Health Questionnaire is a parent survey of children's health and wellbeing, completed by all children starting school in Victoria, Australia (N = 5...

objectives: one of the most effective methods to describe speech disorders is the measurement of speech intelligibility. the speech intelligibility indicates the extent of acoustic signals that correctly speaker produces and hearer receives. the purpose of this study was to investigate the speech intelligibility in the persian children with down syndrome, age range was 3 to 5 years, who had spo...

PURPOSE To analyze the structure of the Centers for Supporting the Family Health (NASF), in 2010, identify the satisfaction degree of speech language pathologists who work in this area and compare the model proposed by the Brazilian Ministry of Health with practice. METHODS Prospective and descriptive study, with 40 speech language pathologists inserted in NASF type one, from all Brazilian re...

In this paper a labeled new speech signal database (FEUP/IPBDB) in Standard European Portuguese (hereafter SEP) is presented. The objective of this work is, on one hand, to provide phonetic material for Text-to-Speech (TTS) systems construction, either from the start or to improve the quality of existing ones, and, on the other hand, to place at service of the SEP scientific community a phoneti...

One of the next big challenges in Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) is the transcription of speech in meetings. This task is particularly problematic for current recognition technologies because, in most realistic meeting scenarios, the vocabularies are unconstrained, the speech is spontaneous and often overlapping, and the microphones are inconspicuously placed. To support the development of ...