This paper explores gender differences in the evaluation of male and female speakers’ affective features in public speaking. We analyzed 260 two-minute behavioral videos (200 of females and 60 of males), collected from an online public speaking practice tool. We adopted a linear regression model that utilized facial and prosodic features, including facial action units (AU), word count, pitch, a...

The current study aimed to extend the evaluation of the utility of the Social Performance Rating Scale (SPRS) [Behav. Res. Ther. 36 (1998) 995]. We examined the utility of a modified SPRS for the behavioral assessment of public-speaking anxiety among patients with social phobia (n = 49). The videotaped performance of public-speaking fearful patients in a public-speaking task was rated using fou...

This study is based on the perspective that considering students’ learning styles in design and development of material crucial. Furthermore, by promises offered CLIL (content language integrated learning) – as reported many scholarly-published articles claiming effective addressing content language, this attempts to explore examine effects taking into account style English speaking model. A to...

OBJECTIVE This study investigated the utility of the Koppitz administration, scoring and norms for the Bender Gestalt Test (BGT) as a neurocognitive screening instrument for Sesotho-speaking children. METHOD The BGT protocols of 671 Sesotho-speaking children between the ages of seven and nine were reviewed. Data pertaining to socioeconomic status were also gathered for 360 of the participants...

We conducted a comparative analytic study on the contextdependent Gaussian mixture hiddenMarkov model (CD-GMMHMM) and deep neural network hidden Markov model (CDDNN-HMM) with respect to the phone discrimination and the robustness performance. We found that the DNN can significantly improve the phone recognition performance for every phoneme with 15.6% to 39.8% relative phone error rate reductio...

There are many factors corresponding to performance degradation of an actual speaker recognition system. Mismatch in speaking style of a target speaker during training and testing is an important one. When a client enrolls in a system, it is natural for him/her to speak in a spontaneous way. However, it is difficult to maintain the same speaking style throughout test phases. In view of this sit...