Objective: It is extremely common for adults to use inner speech to regulate their behavior. Despite this, little is known about the underlying processes that may explain why people use inner speech differently. This study aimed to determine the relationship between different types of inner speech with symptoms of anxiety, depression, somatization, and distress in normal people. Methods: The r...

in this paper, genetic programming is applied for quality improvement of noisy speech signal. therefore, a system including both spectral subtraction and genetic programming is implemented for speech enhancement. in the proposed method, first noise is reduced by spectral subtraction. in the next step, genetic programming trees are trained for more enhancement of noisy signal by mapping the sign...

this study was an attempt to shed light on the use of requestive speech act by iranian nonnative speakers (nnss) of english and canadian native speakers (nss) of english to find out the (possible) similarities and/or differences between the request realizations, and to investigate the influence of the situational variables of power, distance, context familiarity, and l1’s (possible) influence. ...

Most studies on whispering deal with its production and perception, neglecting its communicative role. I have focused on this, especially some social and psychobiological objectives. I have combined a general inquiry into the use of unvoiced speech with stimulus-response experiments on particular signal properties. (1) Analyses of answers to queries revealed that judgments about whispering depe...

Given the relationship between language acquisition and music processing, musical perception (MP) skills have been proposed as a tool for early diagnosis of speech and language difficulties; therefore, a psychometric instrument is needed to assess music perception in children under 10 years of age, a crucial period in neurodevelopment. We created a set of 80 musical stimuli encompassing seven d...

Open access to private, user deployed, access points is a promising candidate for provisioning of high data rates in public wireless access systems. This deployment strategy should especially be an efficient method to serve indoor users in cities with a significant penetration of fixed broadband networks. We estimate the infrastructure cost for different mixes of operator deployed (HSDPA macro ...

The aim of this paper is to report on an attempt to design and implement an intelligent system capable of generating the correct part of speech for a given sentence while the sentence is totally new to the system and not stored in any database available to the system. It follows the same steps a normal individual does to provide the correct parts of speech using a natural language processor. It...