Interval-based rhythm metrics were applied to the speech of English, Catalan and Spanish female adults addressing their children (aged 2, 4 and 6 years) and compared with their speech when addressing adults. Results reveal that when mothers speak to their children, their speech is more vocalic and more even-timed than when they address other adults. However, cross-linguistic differences are sti...

Two experiments are reported that constitute new methods for evaluation of text-to-speech (TTS) synthesis from the user’s perspective. Experiment 1, using sentence stimuli, and Experiment 2, using discrete word stimuli, investigate the effect of voice gender and signal quality on the intelligibility of three TTS synthesis systems from the user’s point of view. Accuracy scores and reaction time ...

BACKGROUND Diet quality indices add an important dimension to dietary assessment. The aim of this systematic review was to: (i) identify and describe the attributes and applications of diet quality indices developed for use or used in paediatric populations; (ii) describe associations between these diet quality indices and health-related variables in paediatric populations; and (iii) identify f...

oronasal region, as an important organ of taste and smell, being respected for its impact on the resonace, which is crucial for any normal speech production. different congenital, acquired and/or developmentalpdefect, may not only have impacts on the quality of respiration, phonation, resonance, also on the process of a normal speech. this article will enable readers to have more focus in such ...

PURPOSE OF REVIEW This paper describes recent advances in perceptual, acoustic, aerodynamic, and endoscopic imaging methods for assessing voice function. RECENT FINDINGS We review advances from four major areas. PERCEPTUAL ASSESSMENT: Speech-language pathologists are being encouraged to use the new consensus auditory-perceptual evaluation of voice inventory for auditory-perceptual assessment ...

In this paper we describe the techniques and methodology developed for automatic labeling of segmental and prosodic information for the Mandarin speech database. There are two major procedures. First, the text is converted into the phonetic network of possible pronunciations, and this network is aligned with the speech data by recognition processes. Secondly, many acoustic prosodic features are...