This paper describes efforts by the University of Pennsylvania's Linguistic Data Consortium to create and distribute shared linguistic resources – including data, annotations, tools and infrastructure – to support the Rich Transcription 2005 Spring Meeting Recognition Evaluation. In addition to distributing large volumes of training data, LDC produced reference transcripts for the RT-05S confer...

A computerised evoked potential test for the lateralisation of speech dominance was compared with the intracarotid sodium amylobarbitone test in 22 epileptic patients. Based on spectral analysis, the computer test correctly predicted the speech dominance of 15 of 16 left speech dominant and five of six right speech dominant patients. This non-invasive test is simple, quick, and innocuous and ca...

image or artistic picture represents an imaginative process that give artistic meaning to speech. this is a process that uncovers hidden meaning and conveys the mental concepts of the writer to the audience and makes his intended meanings much deeper. the reflections of the use of this literary device in classical arabic works and the high frequency of their use in the holy quran and in nahjul-...

The disorders of voice and speech in Parkinson’s disease (PD) result from involvements in several subsystems including respiration, phonation, articulation, and prosody. We investigated the feasibility of acoustic measures for the identification of voice and speech disorders in PD, using a quick vocal test consisting of sustained phonation, diadochokinetic task, and running speech. Various trad...

The purpose of the study was to examine how teacher motivational practice might influence Iranian EFL Learners’ Request and Refusal Speech Acts Production. To this end, five instruments were used to provide appropriate responses to research questions: (a) Quick Placement Test (b) the Motivational Orientation of Language Teaching classroom observation scheme, (c) the Post-Lesson Teacher Evaluati...

A dichotic monitoring test for the lateralisation of speech dominance was compared with testing for dysphasia after unilateral electroconvulsive therapy to each side of the head in 31 patients, and the intracarotid amylobarbitone test in four epileptic patients. Twenty-eight patients shown to be left speech dominant also showed right ear advantages in the dichotic test. Four of the five right s...

The purpose of the study was to examine how teacher motivational practice might influence Iranian EFL Learners’ Request and Refusal Speech Acts Production. To this end, five instruments were used to provide appropriate responses to research questions: (a) Quick Placement Test (b) the Motivational Orientation of Language Teaching classroom observation scheme, (c) the Post-Lesson Teacher Evaluati...

We propose a new approach for detecting topic boundaries and keywords in arbitrary speech, with neither recognition nor prosodic processing, aiming at quick access to the content of recorded raw speech. This approach is based on the general tendency that frequently-repeated phrases/words in speech are characteristic of topics in discourse, so it uses pairs of phonetically similar segments (PPSS...