Across the autism spectrum, level of intelligence is highly dependent on the psychometric instrument used for assessment, and there are conflicting views concerning which measures best estimate autistic cognitive abilities. Inspection time is a processing speed measure associated with general intelligence in typical individuals. We therefore investigated autism spectrum performance on inspectio...

This paper describes the implementation and use of SWI-Speech, an interface between SWI-Prolog and Microsoft SAPI (Speech Application Programming Interface). SWI-Speech is a component of PRONTO (Prolog Natural Language Toolkit), a package created by the Artificial Intelligence Center at the University of Georgia. This paper is divided into a discussion of how to use the current version of SWI-S...

Large vocabulary speaker-independent speech recognition systems being capable of recognizing continuous speech based on hidden Markov models are today’s standard. This review introduces the fundamentals of speech and the underlying speech recognition problems. The three classical approaches, i.e., the acoustic-phonetic, the statistical (pattern) recognition and the artificial intelligence appro...

Differences in understanding speech in noise among hearing-impaired individuals cannot be explained entirely by hearing thresholds alone, suggesting the contribution of other factors beyond standard auditory ones as derived from the audiogram. This paper reports two analyses addressing individual differences in the explanation of unaided speech-in-noise performance among n = 438 elderly hearing...

This study examined whether rapid temporal auditory processing, verbal working memory capacity, non-verbal intelligence, executive functioning, musical ability and prior foreign language experience predicted how well native English speakers (N=120) discriminated Norwegian tonal and vowel contrasts as well as a non-speech analogue of the tonal contrast and a native vowel contrast presented over ...

The goal of the CLARITY project is to explore the use of discourse structure in the understanding of conversational speech. Within project CLARITY we aim to develop automatic classifiers for three levels of discourse structure in Spanish telephone conversations: speech acts, dialogue games, and discourse segments. This paper presents our first results and research plans in three areas: definiti...

Abstract Speech recognition of a language is key area in the field pattern recognition. This paper presents comprehensive survey on speech techniques for non-Indian and Indian languages, compiled some computational models used processing acoustics. An immense number frameworks are available languages persisting around globe. However, limited automatic systems commercial use. The gap between bei...