objectives: this study aimed to evaluate the psychometric properties of the srt that was performed in 4-6 year-old persian-speaking children. the srt is a nonword repetition task that assesses phonological working memory and was designed by shriberg in 2008. methods: the present research was a non-experimental study with a methodological design. the content validity of the task was evaluated by...

In this work, we present an approach to understand the computational methods and decision-making involved in identification of emotions spontaneous speech. The selected task consists Spanish TV debates, which entail a high level complexity as well additional subjectivity human perception-based annotation procedure. A simple convolutional neural model is proposed, its behaviour analysed explain ...

: This study aims to explore the relationship between syntactic and lexical complexity and also the relationship between different aspects of lexical complexity. To this end, speech monologs of 35 Iranian high-intermediate learners of English on three different tasks (i.e. argumentation, description, and narration) were analyzed for correlations between one measure of sy...

We describe SRI’s recognition system as used in the 2001 DARPA Speech in Noisy Environments (SPINE) evaluation. The SPINE task involves recognition of speech in simulated military environments. The task had some unique challenges, including segmentation of foreground speech from noisy background, the need for robust acoustic models to handle noisy speech, and development of language models from...

Research indicates that using a cell phone to talk or text while maneuvering a vehicle impairs driving performance. However, few published studies directly compare the distracting effects of texting using a hands-free (i.e., speech-based interface) versus handheld cell phone, which is an important issue for legislation, automotive interface design and driving safety training. This study compare...