Human listeners are able to quickly and robustly adapt to new accents and do so by using information about speaker’s identities. This paper will present experimental evidence that, even considering information about speaker’s identities, listeners retain a strong bias towards the acoustics of their own dialect after dialect learning. Participants’ behaviour was accurately mimicked by a classifi...

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...

On the connection of Kırcali (Gırcalı) sub-dialect with dialect Western Anatolia -based on data present tense suffix Meninski- Adamovic firstly drew attention. According to available data, Western-Anatolian region is not far from dialects middle Deliorman Region. As an example, we can show Edirne-Dağlı dialect, which located at East-Rumelia region. For example: {-(I)vAr(I)} shown as suffix. In ...

Objective(s): Asthma, the most frequent chronic respiratory disease, results from a complex interaction between multiple genes and environmental factors. To date, more than 100 candidate genes and single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) have been reported to be associated with asthma. One of the discovered genes related to asthma is ADAM33. However, the relationship between ADAM33 gene polymorph...

The purpose of this paper is to examine the viability of synthesizing Masan dialect with Seoul dialect and to examine the role of prosody in the authentication of the synthesized Masan dialect. The synthesis was performed by transferring one or more of the prosodic features of the Masan utterance unto the Seoul utterance. The hypothesis is that, given an utterance composed of the phonemes share...

This paper describes a methodology, and the results stemming from it, for analysing the dynamic encoding of speaker identity and dialect in prosodic parameters. A method based on employing properties of the well known Dynamic Time Warping (DTW) algorithm’s path of best match allows the separation of purely dynamic from static properties of acoustic parameters and hence their evaluation as to dy...

This mutual intelligibility study contains a production and perception experiment on English vowels by Chinese learners. In the production experiment, 45 male first-year Chinese college students were recorded. They hailed from nine different dialectal backgrounds (three supergroups), with five speakers per dialect group. The stimuli were , , , , , , , and ...

Dialect recognition is a challenging and multifaceted problem. Distinguishing between dialects can rely upon many tiers of interpretation of speech data—e.g., prosodic, phonetic, spectral, and word. High-accuracy automatic methods for dialect recognition typically use either phonetic or spectral characteristics of the input. A challenge with spectral system, such as those based on shifted-delta...

This paper investigates the perception of grammatical number in two Limburgian dialects of Dutch, Roermond and Weert, as a function of focus and intonational context. In these dialects, number can be marked segmentally or prosodically. The Roermond dialect, but not the Weert dialect, appears to neutralize the prosodic distinction outside the focus constituent in IP-internal syllables. We explai...