In face-to-face communication both visual and auditory information play an obvious and significant role. In this presentation we will discuss work done, primarily at KTH, that aims at analyzing and modelling verbal and non-verbal communication from a multi-modal perspective. In our studies, it appears that both segmental and prosodic phenomena are strongly affected by the communicative context ...

This paper describes the development of a voice-input voice-output communication aid (VIVOCA) for people with disordered or unintelligible speech, initially concentrating on people with severe dysarthria. The VIVOCA is intended to recognize and interpret an individual’s disordered speech and speak out an equivalent message in clear synthesized speech. User consultation suggests that such a devi...

Effective pain communication is essential if adequate treatment and support are to be provided. Pain communication is often multimodal, with sufferers utilising speech, nonverbal behaviours (such as facial expressions), and co-speech gestures (bodily movements, primarily of the hands and arms that accompany speech and can convey semantic information) to communicate their experience. Research su...

A person, being by nature a social being, cannot live out of touch with other people: he must consult, share thoughts, feelings, empathize, seek understanding, etc. Communication is the channel communication people. complex process human interaction. The representatives various sciences: philosophers, psychologists, linguists, sociologists, cultural scientists, deal problem communication. Accor...

Background and Application Domain Dysarthrias are a family of motor speech disorders which arise from neurological trauma, cerebro-vascular and conditions such as cerebral palsy. Impaired motor production in dysarthric speakers interferes with their basic process of speech production such as phonation, articulation and prosody. Hence their ability to communicate is severely restricted and drast...

The most important communication signal is human speech. It is helpful to think of speech communication in terms of Claude Shannon’s information theory channel model. When thus viewed, it immediately becomes clear that the most complex part of speech communication channel is in auditory system (the receiver). In my opinion, even after years of work, relatively little is know about how the human...

Unwanted noises have a negative influence over communication because it disturbs the conversation and make the communication impossible. Speech enhancement algorithms are used for improving the quality and intelligibility or to reduce listener fatigues. Assessment of speech quality can be done by using either subjective listening test or objective quality measure. Evaluation of several objectiv...

PURPOSE The Picture Exchange Communication System (PECS) is a popular communication-training program for young children with autism spectrum disorders (ASD). This meta-analysis reviews the current empirical evidence for PECS in affecting communication and speech outcomes for children with ASD. METHOD A systematic review of the literature on PECS written between 1994 and June 2009 was conducte...

Human speech will be closely connected with his consciousness, worldview, ideology. Via speech, a person receives certain information and at the same time transmits via speech. In this process, nonverbal means for increasing sensitivity come out in field. turn, they serve as main auxiliary manifestation of language signs. It is worth noting that exactly considered one factors occurrence pragmat...