Infants segment words from fluent speech during the same period when they are learning phonetic categories, yet accounts of phonetic category acquisition typically ignore information about the words in which sounds appear. We use a Bayesian model to illustrate how feedback from segmented words might constrain phonetic category learning by providing information about which sounds occur together ...

This paper aims to develop a methodology for forming communication skills (specifically phonetic skills) through virtual learning environment involving online platforms, tools, and mobile applications, which determines the relevance timeliness of study. The authors present their experience effective use modern resources applications in first-year students studying German as first second foreign...

This contribution presents part of the work initiated at the CTT for the development of speech technology to assist non-native speakers learn Swedish. This study focuses mainly on the automatic location of mispronunciations at a phonetic level. We first describe the database we created for this work and then report on the reliability of several phonetic scores to automatically locate segmental ...

A complete automatic speech segmentation technique has been studied in order to eliminate the need for manually segmented sentences. The goal is to fix the phoneme boundaries using only the speech waveform and the phonetic sequence of the sentences. The phonetic boundaries are established using a Dynamic Time Warping algorithm that uses the a posteriori probabilities of each phonetic unit given...

One of the first challenges that language learners face is discovering which sounds make up their language. Evidence suggests that infants learn about the phonetic categories of their language between six and twelve months, as demonstrated by reduced discrimination of non-native contrasts and enhanced discrimination of native language phonetic contrasts (Werker & Tees, 1984; Narayan, Werker, & ...

It is argued that a satisfactory global theory of intonation will require four levels of analysis : (i) physical (acoustic, physiological) (ii) phonetic (iii) surface phonological and (iv) deep phonological. The theoretical and cognitive status of each level is discussed and specific proposals are made for a model respecting such an overall architecture as well as a condition of interpretabilit...

Previous cross-language research has indicated that some speech contrasts present greater perceptual difficulty for adult non-native listeners than others do. It has been hypothesized that phonemic, phonetic, and acoustic factors contribute to this variability. Two experiments were conducted to evaluate systematically the role of phonemic status and phonetic familiarity in the perception of non...

In this work we present our expert system of Automatic reading or speech synthesis based on a text written in Standard Arabic, our work is carried out in two great stages: the creation of the sound data base, and the transformation of the written text into speech (Text To Speech TTS). This transformation is done firstly by a Phonetic Orthographical Transcription (POT) of any written Standard Ar...

Nonspeech stimuli influence phonetic categorization, but effects observed so far have been limited to precursors' influence on perception of following speech. However, both preceding and following speech affect phonetic categorization. This asymmetry raises questions about whether general auditory processes play a role in context-dependent speech perception. This study tested whether the asymme...