A relation between utterance speed and the amount articulatory behavior for each phoneme reduces is investigated on the basis of the articulatory data taken by using a magnetic sensory system. The relation between the utterance speed and the change of the utterance timing for each phoneme is also focused on. Two linear-regression models are proposed: one predicts reduced articulatory movements ...

The goal of this work is to present a text-to-phoneme conversion (TPC) check tool for generating dictionaries usable for Speech Synthesis and Speech Recognition which includes phonetic and linguistic knowledge. The aim is to improve and accelerate the task of producing canonic pronunciation dictionaries in languages where no simple text-to-phoneme conversion is possible. The prototype was devel...

PURPOSE The purpose of this study was to test the hypothesis that two lexical characteristics - neighborhood density and word frequency - interact to influence performance on phoneme awareness tasks. METHODS Phoneme awareness was examined in a large, longitudinal dataset of 2nd and 4th grade children. Using linear logistic test model, the relation between words' neighborhood density, word fre...

The availability of phonetically annotated and labelled speech corpora is highly desirable from the point of view of speech research and speech technology development. Corpora that are built by the generation of manual phoneme annotation are a laborious and time-consuming task normally carried out by expert phoneticians. The adoption of automatic phoneme annotation for the Maltese language is h...

We present a technique to train acoustic models for a target language using speech data from distinct source languages. In this approach, no native training data from the target language is required. The acoustic model candidates for each targetlanguage phoneme are automatically selected from a group of existing source languages by means of a combined phoneticphonological (CPP) metric, develope...

Abstract Listeners are sensitive to speech sounds’ probability distributions. Distributional training (DT) studies with adults typically involve conscious activation of phoneme labels. We show that distributional exposure can shift existing boundaries (Spanish /e/–/i/) pre-attentively. Using a DT paradigm involving two bimodal distributions we assessed listener's neural discrimination across th...