We investigate national dialect identification, the task of classifying English documents according to their country of origin. We use corpora of known national origin as a proxy for national dialect. In order to identify general (as opposed to corpus-specific) characteristics of national dialects of English, we make use of a variety of corpora of different sources, with inter-corpus variation ...

Research has shown that automatic speech recognition (ASR) performance typically decreases when evaluated on a dialectal variation of the same language that was not used for training its models. Similarly, models simultaneously trained on a group of dialects tend to underperform when compared to dialect-specific models. When trying to decide which dialect-specific model (recognizer) to use to d...

Vocalization, diactritization or diacritics restoration is one of the major challenges in Arabic natural language processing. Algiers dialect is also concerned by this issue. In this paper, we present an automatic diacritization system for standard and dialect Arabic texts based on statistical approach. The idea is to use available tools in statistical machine translation to build such a system...

This study investigates the ability of speakers to imitate features from another dialect of their native language. Speakers from two different Norwegian dialects spoken in Stavanger and Trondheim produced speech material using their own and each other’s dialect. Acoustic analysis involved the occurrence of preaspiration in vowel – voiceless stop contexts. Measurements revealed that preaspiratio...

This study investigates how onset and sentence positioning affect the realization of Tone 1 in two dialects of Taiwan Mandarin. Results showed that the central dialect was higher in register when placed in isolation, but lower when placed in a sentential context. When there was a tonal mismatch, coarticulatory effects were more robust in the northern dialect, implying that speakers of the centr...

The Tarascan or phurépecha language contrasts aspirated stops from non-aspirated word initially, but this contrast was hardly heard in Hiwatzio, a lake dialect (Friedrich 1971:177). We measured the length of the aspirated feature following stops and vowels /i a u/'s formants F1 and F2 so as to identify differences among subjects. The results show that adult men speakers from a mountain dialect ...

This paper presents a method to understand spoken Tunisian dialect based on lexical semantic. This method takes into account the specificity of the Tunisian dialect which has no linguistic processing tools. This method is ontology-based which allows exploiting the ontological concepts for semantic annotation and ontological relations for speech interpretation. This combination increases the rat...

Software Engineering and syntactic which is uncertain with the associations among PCs and regular dialects. In supposition, normal dialect changing over must be the perfect skill of human-PC interface. Characteristic dialect thankful is some of the time portray to as Artificial Intelligence-whole issues since common dialect acknowledgment appears to draw in broad learning about the outside worl...

This study presents an acoustic analysis of the citation tones and tone sandhi patterns of bisyllables in Zhenjiang dialect with an attempt to provide an empirical data for the theoretical study of tone sandhi patterns of Zhenjiang dialect. The results demonstrate that this dialect has five citation tones, i.e., Tone1 (42), Tone2 (35), Tone3 (32), Tone4 (55) and Tone5 (5). The acoustic realizat...

This paper deals with how to construct Text To Speech (TTS) systems for Chinese dialects. The proposed method adapts Chinese Mandarin TTS system to dialects TTS systems through representing dialect phonology by Mandarin phonology using phonology mappings, and adding dialect vocabulary in the front end to handle lexical difference. But not all Chinese dialects are suitable for applying this adap...