The Gaussian distribution is the most commonly used statistical model of the speech signal. In this paper we propose more general statistical model for the distributions of the real and imaginary parts of the speech signal DFT coefficients and their magnitudes. Based on experimental measurements with the TIMIT database we have shown that the Generalized Gaussian Distribution holds well across f...

With the increasing number of people who can afford to make videos to record their lives, home videos play more and more important role in multimedia. Video abstraction is an efficient way to help review such a huge amount of home videos. In this paper, a home video abstraction technique combining audio and video features is presented. The audio contents are firstly classified as silence, pure ...

The present study investigated learners’ interlanguage pragmatic development through analysis of 99 requestive emails addressed to a faculty member over a period of up to two years. Most previous studies mainly investigated how non-native English speaking students’ (NNESs) pragmalinguistic and sociopragmatic competence differed from native English speaking students (NESs) and compared learners ...

This paper explores morpho-syntactic ambiguities for French to develop a strategy for part-of-speech disambiguation that a) reflects the complexity of French as an inflected language, b) optimizes the estimation of probabilities, c) allows the user flexibility in choosing a tagset. The problem in extracting lexical probabilities from a limited training corpus is that the statistical model may n...

Microphone arrays have been widely used for handsfree speech acquisition systems such as teleconferencing or automatic speech recognition. They typically require sound source localization for subsequent multichannel signal processing algorithms such as beamforming for enhancing speech signals. Steered response power with phase transform (SRP-PHAT) source localization has been the most popular m...

objectives: this paper studies the effect of persian cued speech on the perception of persian language phonemes and monosyllabic words with and without sound in hearing impaired children. cued speech is a sound based mode of communication for hearing impaired people that is comprised of a limited series of hand complements and the normal pattern of speech. and it is shown that it effectively ca...

The present work is an attempt in the direction of predicting sequences of building blocks of communication, the parts of speech, in any text. Five novels and five short stories of English language have been tagged under four different treatments and then statistical distributions of the parts of speech have been obtained. The goodness of fit of the distributions has been testified by χ2 -test ...

Objective: It is extremely common for adults to use inner speech to regulate their behavior. Despite this, little is known about the underlying processes that may explain why people use inner speech differently. This study aimed to determine the relationship between different types of inner speech with symptoms of anxiety, depression, somatization, and distress in normal people. Methods: The r...