Short-time Fourier transform of speech signal has two components: magnitude spectrum and phase spectrum. In this paper, relative importance of short-time magnitude and phase spectra on speech perception is investigated. Human perception experiments are conducted to measure intelligibility of speech tokens synthesized either from magnitude spectrum or phase spectrum. It is traditionally believed...

The usefulness of teaching pronunciation in language instruction remains controversial. Though past research suggests that teachers can make little or no difference in improving their students’ pronunciation,  current  findings  suggest  that  second  language  pronunciation  can  improve  to  be near  native-like  with  the  implementation  of  certain  criteria  such  as  the  utilization  of...

nowadays, the wide spread usage of the mobile bank is the catalyst of an opportunity. so, the financial institues and banks benefit of it in their atmosphere of full turbulence. the main goal of this research is to study the effect of the mobile bank usage on the intention of  using mobile bank in electronic banking industy by testing 6 hypotheses. it is note worthy that the present research is...

The number of video cameras in public places increases due to different reasons such as detecting dangers (e.g., thefts, robberies, terrorist attacks) and security breaches crowds. application surveillance systems is sometimes evaluated ambivalently; therefore, the presented study focuses on factors influencing acceptance a privacy-friendly, smart system. Overall, 216 persons aged between 18 81...