The relative difficulty with which spoken corpora can be compiled by the researcher compared with written discourses, coupled with the time needed to fully transcribe spoken data, to say nothing of the additional expenses involved, inevitably has made large spoken corpora a far rarer entity than written corpora. And yet, if we are to further unravel the intricacies of spoken discourse, we need ...

OBJECTIVE To assess the effects of data-driven instruction (DDI) on spoken language outcomes of children with cochlear implants and hearing aids. STUDY DESIGN Retrospective, matched-pairs comparison of post-treatment speech/language data of children who did and did not receive DDI. SETTING Private, spoken-language preschool for children with hearing loss. SUBJECTS Eleven matched pairs of ...

In this paper we overview the spoken language processing activities at LIMSI, which are carried out in a multilingual framework. These activities include speech-to-text conversion, spoken language systems for information retrieval, speaker and language recognition, and speech response. The Spoken Language Processing Group has also been actively involved in corpora development and evaluation. Th...