For this study, an experiment was created to test for the existence of tonal preplanning in Puerto Rican Spanish. The scaling of utterance-initial F0 high peaks was examined as a function of utterance length, which was defined as total utterance duration (in seconds). Eight speakers from Caguas, Puerto Rico, were recorded reading 24 distinct utterances of varying length for analysis. The data r...

Multiple-pass searches have many advantages, including the combination of the speed of small models with the accuracy of large models. In their simplest implementations, the later passes cannot begin until the first pass completes at the end of the utterance. This work describes a block-synchronous approach to multiple-pass searches, where the utterance is partitioned into fixed-length blocks. ...

In this work we aim at compensating the degrading effects of utterance length variability of speaker verification systems, which appear in many typical applications such as forensics. The paper concentrates in the score misalignments due to different utterance lengths, proposing several algorithms for its normalization. In order to test the proposed methods, we have built two corpora from NIST ...

The most common approaches to automatic emotion recognition rely on utterance level prosodic features. Recent studies have shown that utterance level statistics of segmental spectral features also contain rich information about expressivity and emotion. In our work we introduce a more fine-grained yet robust set of spectral features: statistics of Mel-Frequency Cepstral Coefficients computed ov...

It is unclear how the prosodic features in long spontaneous speech change. We focused on the F0 declination of an utterance to investigate the F0 transition by taking into consideration the length and syntactic structure of a Japanese utterance. In the case of an utterance without a strong syntactic boundary, the F0 range is fixed to a certain width, and the F0s decline toward the end of the ut...

Akuisisi atau pemerolehan bahasa pada anak merupakan salah satu kajian yang menarik dalam psikolinguistik. Pemerolehan termasuk ilmu MLU pengukur untuk perkembangan sintaksis anak. Penelitian ini menggunakan metode analisis deskriptif dengan pendekatan kualitatuif. Subjek penelitian adalah seorang berusia 2,10 tahun. Objeknya ialah perempuan 2 tahun 10 bulan (34 bulan). Teknik pengumpulan data ...

Gaussian mixture model-universal background model (GMM UBM) supervectors are used to identify spoken Indian languages. The calculated from short-time MFCC, its first and sec derivatives. UBM builds a generalized language model, mean adaptation transforms it duration normalized language-specific GMM. Multi-class support vector machine artificial neural network classifiers labels the supervectors...