The role of peer and friendship-group conversation in educational career choices is great relevance to widening participation (WP) practitioners, but has been little studied recent years. We interviewed young people WP practitioners Carlisle, an isolated city the UK, interrogate this subject. found that were clearly discussing their future choices, sometimes overtly 'unacknowledged conversation...

Automatic speech recognition is being used in a variety of assistive contexts, including home computer systems, mobile telephones, and various public and private telephony services. Despite their growing presence, commercial speech recognition technologies are still not easily employed by individuals who have speech or communication disorders. While speech disorders in older adults are common, ...

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Speech recognition systems perform poorly on speech degraded by even simple effects such as linear filtering and additive noise. One possible solution to this problem is to modify the probability density function (PDF) of clean speech to account for the effects of the degradation. However, even for the case of linear filtering and additive noise, it is extremely difficult to do this analyticall...

proper speech functioning in human being, depends on the precise coordination and timing balances in a series of complex neuro nuscular movements and actions. starting from the prime organ of energy source of expelled air from respirato y system; deliver such air to trigger vocal cords; swift changes of this phonatory episode to a comprehensible sound in resonace and final coordination of all h...

Melissa Jakubowitz, M.A., CCC-SLP is Vice President of SLP Services at PresenceLearning. A speech-language pathologist with over 20 years of clinical and managerial experience, Ms. Jakubowitz is a Board Recognized Specialist in Child Language. With a diverse clinical background, Ms. Jakubowitz began her career working in the public schools and has also operated a successful, multi-office privat...

This paper presents the DiDi Corpus, a corpus of South Tyrolean Data of Computermediated Communication (CMC). The corpus comprises around 650,000 tokens from Facebook wall posts, comments on wall posts and private messages, as well as socio-demographic data of participants. All data was automatically annotated with language information (de, it, en and others), and manually normalised and anonym...