The article is devoted to a comparative analysis of the beginnings spontaneous monologic descriptions and their peculiarities. were recorded from 8 Russian 20 Chinese informants when speaking in Russian, i.e. native non-native language, respectively. All texts are Herluf Bidstrup’s comic strip Elixir for Hair, which represents series 13 interconnected pictures telling story bald man. This mater...

In this paper, we show how adaptive modeling within the statistical parametric speech synthesis framework can be applied to Albanian dialects. We develop speaker dependent voices for the Tosk and Gheg dialect and adapt models for the Gheg dialect from the Tosk models. We show that the adapted Gheg models outperform the speaker dependent Gheg model on an intelligibility and dialect classificatio...

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...

SmartKom is a multimodal dialogue system that combines speech, gesture, and facial expressions for input and output. SmartKom provides an anthropomorphic and affective user interface through its personification of an interface agent. Understanding of spontaneous speech is combined with video-based recognition of natural gestures and facial expressions. One of the major scientific goals of Smart...

Although the usability lacks of early speech dialog systems had been discussed in expert circles for quite some years, it took until the 2004 ‘study on acceptance and usability of speech applications’ to make this evident to the German scientific and industrial community. In this study, Peissner et al. (2004) had come up with a systematic and at the same time pragmatic approach to measuring acc...