Community participation by people with lifelong disability is not a new concept. Yet, within the field of disability there is ongoing debate about the barriers to participation and how these can be solved. At a practical level, participation remains an issue that is often misunderstood by many who seek to promote the integration of adults with lifelong disability into the community. Community p...

Human listeners can almost instantaneously judge whether or not another speaker is part of their speech community. The basis of this judgment is the speaker’s accent. Even though humans judge speech accents with ease, it has been tremendously difficult to automatically evaluate and rate accents in any consistent manner. This paper describes an experiment using the Amazon Mechanical Turk to deve...

Although the usability lacks of early speech dialog systems had been discussed in expert circles for quite some years, it took until the 2004 ‘study on acceptance and usability of speech applications’ to make this evident to the German scientific and industrial community. In this study, Peissner et al. (2004) had come up with a systematic and at the same time pragmatic approach to measuring acc...

This paper describes the Buckeye corpus of spontaneous American English speech, a 307,000-word corpus containing the speech of 40 talkers from central Ohio, USA. The method used to elicit and record the speech is described, followed by a description of the protocol that was developed to phonemically label what talkers said. The results of a test of labeling consistency are then presented. The c...

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Hate speech is one of the serious problems related to presence internet, particularly social media. Media literacy education on hate efforts overcome problem. This community service was held in Klaseman Village, Sukoharjo. It aims increase target’s media speech. The target expected be able access internet wisely and avoid practice result achieved from that had knowledge skills prevent counter s...

We outline a possible small-vocabulary shared task for the emerging medical speech translation community. Data would consist of about 2000 recorded and transcribed utterances collected during an evaluation of an English ↔ Spanish version of the Open Source MedSLT system; the vocabulary covered consisted of about 450 words in English, and 250 in Spanish. The key problem in defining the task is t...

Speech emotion recognition is currently an active research subject and has attracted extensive interest in the science community due to its vital application to human‐robot interaction. Most speech emotion recognition systems employ high‐dimensional speech features, indicating human emotion expression, to improve emotion recognition performance. To effectively reduce t...