This paper addresses mismatch between speech processing units used by a speech recognizer and sentences of corpora. A standard speech recognizer divides an input speech into speech processing units based on its power information. On the other hand, training corpora of language models are divided into sentences based on punctuations. There is inevitable mismatch between speech processing units a...

Speech contains prosodic cues such as pauses between different phrases of a sentence. These intonational phrase boundaries (IPBs) elicit a specific component in event-related brain potential studies, the so-called closure positive shift. The aim of the present functional magnetic resonance imaging study is to identify the neural correlates of this prosody-related component in sentences containi...

This paper describes the VOCAL (Voice Operated CALculator) speech understanding system. VOCAL is a software package that lets Its user program a computer to perform numerical calculations by speaking to It in English-like sentences. To accomplish this, VOCAL uses processes for acoustic, grammatical, and semantic analysis. These individual procedures, which are relatively simple, are embedded in...

In perceptual experiments, quantitative manipulation of acoustic features in speech material is often required. And obviously, it can be realized only with speech synthesis techniques. Some of the authors have conducted a series of perceptual experiments, through which they have felt necessity of a system to generate more natural speech. With these backgrounds, a speech stimuli generation syste...

The article analyzes the most typical cases of introducing free indirect speech in Russian translation where there are no corresponding structures English original. Typical non-free-indirectspeech and contexts source text explored, such as may materialize target text. study employs qualitative methods including lexical-semantic, contextual comparative analysis As for structure, this paper has b...

A two-part study examined recognition of speech produced in quiet and in noise by normal hearing adults. In Part I 5 women produced 50 sentences consisting of an ambiguous carrier phrase followed by a unique target word. These sentences were spoken in three environments: quiet, wide band noise (WBN), and meaningful multi-talker babble (MMB). The WBN and MMB competitors were presented through in...