Research in second or foreign language learning indicates that for adult learners, the improvement of one language skill facilitates the development of other skills. The purpose of this study was to investigate the correlations among Chinese EFL students’ reading, writing, and listening development by examining their test scores on the College English Test Band 4. The findings showed that the r...

This paper describes a new methodology for the speech quality assessment of hands-free terminals and discusses the results of a pilot study performed in 1996 at the Berlin laboratories for speech quality assessment at the Technology Centre of Deutsche Telekom. Up to now, critical speech quality aspects of hands-free terminals are usually assessed with conversational tests. With the test method ...

The present study investigated the effect of single and multiple genre movies on listening comprehension of upper intermediate language learners. To this end, a language proficiency test was administered to 40 male and female postgraduates of different majors attending International English Language Testing System (IELTS) classes and ultimately 25 upper intermediate language learners were selec...

We present a system that automatically turns the pages of the music score for musicians during a performance. It is based on a new algorithm for following an incoming audio stream in real time and aligning it to a music score (in the form of a synthesized audio file). Precision and robustness of the algorithm are quantified in systematic experiments, and a demonstration using an actual page tur...

This paper analyzes the application of methods developed in automatic speech recognition (ASR) to better understand neural activity measured with electrocorticography (ECoG) during the presentation of speech. ECoG data is collected from temporal cortex in two subjects listening to a matrix sentence test. We investigate the relation of ECoG signals and acoustic speech that has been processed wit...

Finding out what holds back students from doing well on the TOEFL listening exam is central to this study's overall aim. In study, quantitative descriptive approach was used. A sample of 36 participants Piksi Input Serang's fifth semester accounting diploma class served as basis for study. The study instrument based an cited Hamouda (2013). There are a total 27 inquiries spread across 7 section...

This paper presents an experimental comparison of a broad range of the leading vocoder types which have been previously described. We use a reference implementation of each of these to create stimuli for a listening test using copy synthesis. The listening test is performed using both Lombard and normal read speech stimuli, and with two types of question for comparison. Multi-dimensional Scalin...