The development of a captioning system that supports the real-time understanding of monologue speech such as lectures and commentaries is required. In monologues, since a sentence tends to be long, each sentence is often displayed in multi lines on the screen and becomes unreadable. In the case, it is necessary to insert linefeeds into a text so that the text becomes easy to read. This paper pr...

This paper presents an approach toward rapid creation of varied synthetic voices at low cost. This consists of amassing audio web contents, extracting usable speech from them, further transcribing the speech to surface text and performing phone-time alignment, and using the speech and transcripts to build HMMbased voices. A set of experiments is conducted to evaluate this approach. The results ...

To support the real-time understanding of spoken monologue such as lectures and commentaries, the development of a captioning system is required. In monologues, since a sentence tends to be long, each sentence is often displayed in multi lines on one screen, it is necessary to insert linefeeds into a text so that the text becomes easy to read. This paper proposes a technique for inserting linef...

People with mental illness (PWMI) are faced with a number of social and health-related challenges especially stigma and discrimination which tend to have negative effects on their lives. This paper presents narrative monologues portraying the experiences and effects of psychiatric stigma and discrimination on PWMI in South Africa. These narratives voice out the concerns of the stigmatizers (spe...

Recordings of careful readings and unscripted monologues in Swedish and Argentinean Spanish were auditorily and acoustically analyzed to test the hypothesis that temporal equalization of syllable-sized contoid-vocoid (CV) sequences typically occurs in casual as opposed to elaborated speaking styles. Results indicated 1) that CV durations and standard deviations appearing in unscripted Swedish t...

Near-perfect atttomatic accent assignment is attainable,for citation-s~le speech, but better computational models art, needed to predict accent in extended, spontaneous discourses. This paper presents an empirically motivated theory of the discourse ]bcttsing nature of accent in spontaneous speech. Hypotheses based on this theory lead to a new approach to accent prediction, in which patterns o ...

cet article essaie d’aborder « le langage et ses mécanismes » dans l’une des fameuses comédies de beaumarchais, le mariage de figaro qui est considéré révolutionnaire, avant tout par l’un des éléments de la parole, le célèbre monologue de figaro qui joue un rôle primordial dans le déroulement de l’aspect tragique de la pièce où le comique verbal se fait généralement à travers les jeux de mots, ...

The rapid development of image media today has been reinforcing what Guy Debord argued as society spectacle. Ubiquitous visual advertising marks that spectacle invaded diverse aspects today’s life. alienated labor relations proposed by Marx are once again simulated into a pseudo-desire structure guided consumption symbols. Robert J. Sawyer’s Golden Fleece is even set in post-human world where a...