Intelligibility can play a major role in communication systems. The aim of the study is to investigate development phonetic accuracy and speech intelligibility typically developing (TD) Tamil speaking children find relation between as measured using Percentage phoneme correct rating. A total 150 TD native age range 2 6.11 years participated study. These were further divided into 5 groups. Stimu...

Normalized frequency data of X-JToBI prosodic labels were used to automatically discriminate 4 speech registers –academic presentation, simulated public speaking, dialogue, and reproduction speech– of the Corpus of Spontaneous Japanese (CSJ). It turned out that the use of prosodic label frequency information and speaking rate could achieve more than 85% accuracy (closed data). It also turned ou...

Researchers have extensively studied phenomena that affect a second language learner’s oral production while there is scant evidence about input-related factors. Accordingly, the present study sought to investigate how variation in oral production is caused by the input they receive from different course materials. To this end, the study included a micro-evaluation study of three course materia...

We present a novel method to detect when a person is speaking using respiratory measurements collected in the natural enviroment. A speaker’s respiration pattern is sampled from a respiratory inductive plethysmograph (RIP) band worn around the speaker’s chest. Ratio of inhalation duration to exhalation duration (IE ratio) has traditionally been used to detect speaking in controlled lab environm...

Automatic speech recognition technology is becoming increasingly widespread in many applications. For dictation tasks, where a single talker is to use the system for long periods of time, the high recognition accuracies obtained are in part due to the user performing a lengthy enrolment procedure to ‘tune’ the parameters of the recogniser to their particular voice characteristics and speaking s...