Speaker identification performance is almost perfect in neutral talking environments. However, the performance is deteriorated significantly in shouted talking environments. This work is devoted to proposing, implementing, and evaluating new models called Second-Order Circular Suprasegmental Hidden Markov Models (CSPHMM2s) to alleviate the deteriorated performance in the shouted talking environ...

Can native listeners rapidly adapt to suprasegmental mispronunciations in foreign-accented speech? To address this question, an exposure-test paradigm was used to test whether Dutch listeners can improve their understanding of non-canonical lexical stress in Hungarian-accented Dutch. During exposure, one group of listeners heard a Dutch story with only initially stressed words, whereas another ...

It is well known that speaker identification yields very high performance in a neutral talking environment; on the other hand, the performance has been sharply declined in a shouted talking environment. This work aims at proposing, implementing, and evaluating novel Third-Order Circular Suprasegmental Hidden Markov Models (CSPHMM3s) to improve the low performance of text-independent speaker ide...

The paralinguistic features, however this conference classifies the “Paralinguistic analysis” as Speaker identification, Keyword/topic spotting, and Language identification, include emotional aspects of voice, which is focused recently on interpersonal communications. Study starts from description and statistics of those features. Among many acoustic characteristics, we investigated features re...

This study investigates the timing of perception of tonal and segmental information. Its purpose is to determine whether the apparent delay that previous priming studies have reported for the processing of tonal information (relative to the processing of segmental information) may stem from lowlevel speech perception. Native Chinese listeners and native English listeners without knowledge of to...

Recently the studies concentrating on computer assistant language learning (CALL) has been growing in numbers as they offer many advantages that couldn't otherwise be provided by a traditional classroom setting. In addition to popular computer-assisted pronunciation teaching (CAPT) systems, computer-assisted prosody training system is another branch of CALL (Computer assistant language learning...