In this paper, a GMM with common mixture components, referred to as the common component GMM (CCGMM), is proposed to be the signal model for calculating the diversity measure for the speaker-and-environment change detection in broadcast news signal. The use of GMM is to increase the accuracy of audio signal modeling while the use of common mixture components is to solve the complexity problem o...

This two-study experimental design utilizes a group-based priming framework to investigate the relationship between exposure to television news portrayals that intersect race with violent crime and viewers’ real-world racial judgments. Results from Study 1 reveal that both the gender of the viewer and the race of the TV news suspect influence subsequent judgments, including attributions about t...

Speaker role recognition in TV Broadcast News shows is addressed in this paper. Speaker turns are assigned a role among anchor, reporter and other. A multi-view approach is proposed exploiting the complementarities of lexical cues obtained from Automatic Speech Recognition output and acoustical cues obtained from speech signal analysis. Early and late fusions are compared. 90.1% classification ...

OBJECTIVES Lyme disease is the most common tick-borne disease. People seek health information on Lyme disease from YouTubeTM videos. In this study, we investigated if the contents of Lyme disease-related YouTubeTM videos varied by their sources. METHODS Most viewed English YouTubeTM videos (n = 100) were identified and manually coded for contents and sources. RESULTS Within the sample, 40 v...

The study focuses on identifying and describing the layout models of leading Ukrainian TV channels, which were formed in 2004–2020 connection with changes audience demands, transformations business models, mastering latest technologies. news release is a marketing narrative about current events, mediated by narrators language as sign system. This paper aims to emotionally engage viewers further...