Phonological systems show clear signs of being shaped by phonetics. Sound patterns are overwhelmingly phonetically ‘natural’, in that they reflect the influence of physical constraints on speech production and perception, and categorical phonological processes often mirror low-level gradient phonetic effects. The question of how best to explain and model the influence of phonetics on phonology ...

The imitation of spoken stop consonants by an articulatory synthesizer using only general learning principles addresses significant issues in speech inversion and speech acquisition. Stop consonants are relatively large, complex acoustic events resulting from discrete articulations, so inversion based on the use of small time windows or based on the minimisation of average articulatory error ac...

Support Vector Machines (SVMs) represent a new approach to pattern classification which has recently attracted a great deal of interest in the machine learning community. Their appeal lies in their strong connection to the underlying statistical learning theory, in particular the theory of Structural Risk Minimization. SVMs have been shown to be particularly successful in fields such as image i...

kurdish language is one of the iranian languages and the historical study of the phonetic system of khorasan kormanji dialect, can clearly show that this language has been under the influence of iranian languages, especially persian language. the author of the article has used prof. tsablof’s (the most famous russian orientalist) publications, to show the persian language influence on khorasan ...

This paper describes our effort to mark and annotate read Cantonese speech for both citation pronunciation and reading aloud sentences/phrases. Four signals are recorded simultaneously to assist marking and annotation: acoustic, laryngograph, nasal and air burst signals. A coarse match between voiced segments of speech and voiced segments of the phonetic spelling of the utterance is executed by...

Traditional acoustic-phonetic approach makes use of both spectral and phonetic information when comparing the voice speakers. While units are not equally informative, context speech plays an important role in speaker verification (SV). In this paper, we propose a neural that learns to dynamically assign differentiated weights features for SV. Such form attention mask (PAM). The framework consis...

Design issues of a spontaneous speech corpus is described. The corpus under compilation will contain 800-1000 hour spontaneously uttered Common Japanese speech and the morphologically annotated transcriptions. Also, segmental and intonation labeling will be provided for a subset of the corpus. The primary application domain of the corpus is speech recognition of spontaneous speech, but we plan ...

This paper focuses on the creation of word-lists for making diphone recordings for speech synthesis. Such lists often consist of nonsense words, which has the advantage that the phonetic environment can be constrained, and it is easy to produce lists containing all possible combinations. However, this approach has the disadvantage that non-experts may find it difficult to read the nonsense-word...

Cloud Computing is being adopted by many companies because of its capacity to use computing and storage resources on a metered basis thereby reducing the investments in infrastructure. With all its benefits, cloud computing also brings along concerns about the security, privacy and jurisdiction because of its size, structure, and geographical dispersion. This paper tries to explore these concer...

According to the ‘mating intelligence’ theory by evolutionary psychologist Geoffrey Miller, human morality is a system of sexually selected traits which serve as costly signals to the other sex about one’s fitness and readiness to take care for possible offspring. Starting from the standard prediction of evolutionary psychology that sexual selection produces psychological sex differences in hum...