This paper presents results on the selection of application scenarios and persona design for sociolect and dialect speech synthesis. These results are derived from a listening experiment and a user study. Most speech synthesis applications focus on major languages that are spoken by many people. We think that the localization of speech synthesis applications by using sociolects and dialects can...

We developed a time-domain normalization procedure which uses a speech signal and its corresponding speech rate contour as an input, and produces the normalized speech signal. Then we normalized the speech rate of a large spoken language resource of German read speech. We compared the resulting segment durations with the original durations using several three-way ANOVAs with phone type and spea...

This study is concerned with sound change over time in Australian English. The aim was to determine via acoustic analysis whether there is evidence of /u/-fronting in a speaker population of elderly and middle-aged male newsreaders. Results showed that the middle-aged group was producing /u/ further towards the front of the vowel space than the elderly group in their original recording, and tha...

The aim of the paper is introduction and analysis regionalisms Vilnian polish youth’s sociolect. Regionalisms dialectical forms that are typical Polish language North–Eastern Borderlands were given to study. In collection most substantial group constitutes lexical regionalisms. Morphological (word–formative inflectional) phonetical appeared in lower range. They represent different theme regiona...

this study aims at investigating voices in the persian translation of katherine mansfield's the garden party. in so doing, after a stylistic analysis of the voices in the original is done, it is argued by the authors that the polyphonous nature of the story is to a great extent due to the deployment of various sociolects in the story as well as the choice of free indirect discourse (fid) as the...

In this chapter, we give a brief introduction to speech-driven applications in order to motivate why it is desirable to automatically recognize particular speaker characteristics from speech. Starting from these applications, we derive what kind of characteristics might be useful. After categorizing relevant speaker characteristics, we describe in more detail language, accent, dialect, idiolect...

Author profiling aims at identifying the authors’ traits on the basis of their sociolect aspect, that is, how language is shared by them. This work describes the system submitted by Symanto Research for the PAN 2017 Author Profiling Shared Task. The current edition is focused on language variety and gender identification on Twitter. We address these tasks by exploiting the morphology and semant...

The present study outlines a comprehensive analysis of the Japanese youth sociolanguage network space as an attribute modern linguoculture and its component part written form communication. article considers 「若者語の SNS言葉」[wakamonogo no SNS kotoba] newest linguistic phenomenon in language, which functions communities space, transforms communication young people has own “written spoken” speech, wh...

In contrast to widely used waveform concatenation methods, the presented approach to speech synthesis relies on a parametric analysis–re-synthesis technique, where the features extracted in the analysis stage are modeled by hidden Markov models (HMMs). Many important improvements in the last decade have helped this approach to reach impressive performance. Additionally, its inherent flexibility...