Several adaptation approaches have been proposed in an e ort to improve the speech recognition performance in mismatched conditions. However, the application of these approaches had been mostly constrained to the speaker or channel adaptation tasks. In this paper, we rst investigate the e ect of mismatched dialects between training and testing speakers in an Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) s...

This study examined cross-dialectal differences on the perception of Greek vowels. Speakers of Standard Modern Greek (SMG) and two dialectal areas (Crete, Kozani), all with five vowels in their systems, chose best exemplar locations (prototypes) for Greek vowels embedded in a carrier sentence spoken by a speaker of their dialect. The results showed that SMG, Cretan and Kozani vowels were well s...

At Eurospeech 97 we presented a perception experiment on identifying regional variants of High German from digit strings in telephone speech (Draxler, Burger 1997). This experiment has been modified as follows: i) use of high quality speech recordings from the RVG1 (Burger, Schiel, 1998) corpus instead of SpeechDat telephone speech, ii) a geographically precise dialect determination of the spea...

We built a system for the automatic creation of a text-based topic hierarchy, meant to be used in a geographically defined community. This poses two main problems. First, the appearance of both standard language and a community-related dialect, demanding that dialect words should be as much as possible corrected to standard words, and second, the automatic hierarchic clustering of texts by thei...

Variability in speech due to dialect is a major factor limiting speech system performance for speech recognition, spoken document retrieval, and dialog systems. In this study, we propose a novel discriminative algorithm to improve dialect classification for unsupervised spontaneous speech in Arabic. No transcripts are used for either training or testing, and all data are spontaneous speech. The...

We quantitatively investigate how the telephone channel and regional dialect might impact formant frequencies estimates extracted from tools commonly used in law enforcement. The telephone channel and regional dialect are important factors in forensic phonetics. In 90% of forensic cases, the speech sample in question is recorded after transmission via telephone (Byrne and Foulkes, 2004). In add...

csn1s1is one of the major genes encoding milk proteins of mammals. in this study we determined allele frequencies of csn1s1-5` flanking region as well as exon 17 variants and their effects on milk traits in three indigenous cattle breeds mazandarani, golpaygani (bos indicus) and sarabi (bos taurus) and holstein cattle in iran. csn1s1*b variant was nearly fixed in holstein but ranged from 0.40 t...


 Located in the Semna?n area (midway between Tehran and Khorasan), town of S?ahmirza?d its neighboring villages are home to speakers S?ahmirza?di, a vernacular sharply differing from other language types spoken but closely related Mazandarani across Alborz range north, along Caspian coast. This article studies S?ahmirza?di phonology, grammar, vocabulary, with look at cross-linguistic infl...

CSN1S1is one of the major genes encoding milk proteins of mammals. In this study we determined allele frequencies of CSN1S1-5` flanking region as well as exon 17 variants and their effects on milk traits in three indigenous cattle breeds Mazandarani, Golpaygani (Bos indicus) and Sarabi (Bos taurus) and Holstein cattle in Iran. CSN1S1*B variant was nearly fixed in Holstein but ranged from 0.40 t...