Recently, we have proposed a detection-based speech recognizer which has two main components: a bank of phonetic feature detectors implemented with hidden Markov models (HMMs), and an event merger. Each detector generates a score that pertains to some phonetic features, e.g. voicing. The merger combines all these scores to generate phone labels. The parameters of the detectors and the merger ca...

The so called Phone Log-Likelihood Ratio (PLLR) features, computed on phone posterior probabilities provided by phonetic decoders, convey acoustic-phonetic information in a sequence of frame-level vectors. Thus, PLLRs can be easily plugged into traditional acoustic systems just by replacing MFCCs, PLPs or whatever other representation. PLLR features were used under an iVector-PLDA approach in o...

A working database needs tools to transcribe and label at both phonetic and prosodic levels. While the proposed phonetic transcription system is a simplified from of the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) following the SAMPA guidelines; the prosodic labeling system is an elaborated form of the ToBI (Tone and Break Indices) framework adopted for Mandarin. In particular, the proposed prosodic ...

The paper illustrates the results of a correlation study focusing on linguistic variation in an Italian region, Tuscany. By exploiting a multi-level representation scheme of dialectal data, the study analyses attested patterns of phonetic and morpho-lexical variation with the aim of testing the degree of correlation between a) phonetic and morpho-lexical variation, and b) linguistic variation a...

Mispronunciation detection is an important component in a computer-assisted language learning (CALL) system. Many CALL systems only provide pronunciation correctness as the single feedback, which is not very informative for language learners. This paper proposes a context aware multilayer framework for Mandarin mispronunciation detection. The proposed framework incorporates the context informat...

Background: Employee participation in the organization and hearing their voices is one of the ways to increase and strengthen the spirit of criticism and teamwork with the aim of increasing productivity in organizations. The purpose of this study is to develop a model of ethical components of participation in the phonetic behavior of employees. Method: The research method is heuristic. The sta...

Speech of children with cleft lip and palate (CLP) is sometimes still disordered even after adequate surgical and nonsurgical therapies. Such speech shows complex articulation disorders, which are usually assessed perceptually, consuming time and manpower. Hence, there is a need for an easy to apply and reliable automatic method. To create a reference for an automatic system, speech data of 58 ...

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As a tool for legal spelling and phonetic transcription of Chinese, the Chinese Pinyin System Scheme is an indispensable international teaching. International teachers should systematically understand it in theory, pay attention to some details teaching Phonetic Alphabet, improve effect avoid detours.