While the overall performance of speech recognition systems continues to improve, they still show a dramatic increase in word error rate when tested on different speaking styles, i.e. when speakers for example want to make an important point during a meeting and change from sloppy speech to clear speech. Today’s speech recognizers are therefore not robust with respect to speaking style, althoug...

conclusions prevalence of speech and language delay is high (27%) in children less than three years of age attending the under-five clinic for at-risk children. negative home environment and family history of speech and language disorders are significant risk factors for speech and language delay. the strong association of speech delay with delay in tdsc reemphasizes the need for a complete dev...

Objectives: To identify and assess the level of development of motor abilities in older pre-school -age children with speech disorder. Methods: The study included 200 older pre-school age children, 100 children with a healthy level of speech development and 100 with speech disorder, in Belgorod and Belgorod region (Russian Federation). The study looked at scientific sources; motor abilities te...

evaluation of communication abilities in the elderly is crucial for activities which will be performed to improve their quality of life. a valid and reliable questionnaire is needed for assessing communication abilities. we aimed to translate and validate the speech, spatial, and qualities of hearing scale (ssq) in iran. the forward-backward procedure was applied to translate the questionnaire ...

The article deals with the specifics of dramatic texts translation – separately considered dramas intended for staging and those intented reading. It also analyzes recurrent errors made by students interpreting-translation studies. identified problems mainly concern following areas: inappropriately chosen global strategy, neglecting intertextual valences, pragmatic (logical) error, incorrent fi...

this paper is a short review on the jann and content of speech and language rehabilitation services and the trend of their institutionalization in iran. a summary of formal education in speech and language therapy in iran as originated by establishing a 4 year bs rehabilitation program in the college of rehabilitation sciences in tehran in 1974 is given. since then, speech and language rehabili...

adi - ben - zaid al- ebadi is one of the well-known poets in jaheli age who lived in court of sasanied kings and heerem's kings who were appointed and backed up by them. as such his life was away from tribal war and bedouin life. he had a good command of both arabic and persian languages. this poet was court scribe and ambassador of anoshirvan to seizer and his poetry was different from ot...

The article examines the functioning of precedent names in modern Russian prose. They are analyzed as part various comparative constructions – metaphors and similes. Precedent classified, a number thematic groups distinguished, which they included: ancient mythonyms, biblical characters saints, literary folklore characters, historical figures cultural figures. It is noted that most voluminous g...