In this paper we show the results of our participation in the MultiLing 2013 summarisation tasks. We participated with single-document and multi-document corpus-based summarisers for both Arabic and English languages. The summarisers used word frequency lists and log likelihood calculations to generate single and multi document summaries. The single and multi summaries generated by our systems ...

The aim of this study was to investigate the applicability Internet Reciprocal Teaching (IRT) for remedial English reading instruction in EFL context, specifically purpose overcoming difficulties encountered by low-achieving Saudi students majoring at University Jeddah. treatment phase lasted three months and, due COVID-19 pandemic and resulting shift online teaching, instruments used were an p...

In HMM-based TTS, while the segmental quality of synthesized speech is quite acceptable, intonation, especially at the sentence level, tends to be somewhat bland. The maximum likelihood (ML) criterion used in HMM training and parameter trajectory generation is partially responsible for the blandness. Additionally, the F0 trajectory thus generated has a smaller dynamic range than that of natural...

Acoustic waveforms of the strident fricatives /s/, /z/, /integral of/, and /3/ spoken by two native American English speakers are analyzed using modern chaotic analysis techniques. Fricative data are extracted from both intervocalic and sustained utterances. For comparison, acoustic waveforms of the vowels /a/, /i/, and /u/ are also analyzed. For 44% of the unvoiced fricative tokens in VCV cont...

Voicing contrasts in stop consonants are expressed by a constellation of acoustic cues. This study focused on a spectral cue present at burst onset in American English labial and coronal stops. Spectral shape was examined for word-initial, prevocalic stops of all three places of articulation in a laboratory production study and a large corpus of continuous read speech. Voiceless labial and coro...

In this paper, the implementation of a robust front-end to be used for a large-vocabulary Continuous Speech Recognition (CSR) system based on a Voiced-Unvoiced (V-U) decision has been addressed. Our approach is based on the separation of the speech signal into voiced and unvoiced components. Consequently, speech enhancement can be achieved through processing of the voiced and the unvoiced compo...

Words in connected speech are often assimilated to subsequent words. Some property of that upcoming word may then be determined in advance; these advance assimilatory cues may facilitate perception of that word. A gating experiment was conducted in Dutch, studying anticipatory voice assimilation between plosives, in 24 two-word combinations. In Dutch, voicing in a word-final plosive can only be...