Intelligibility and comprehensibility in English learners’ pronunciation plays a vital role effective communication. Empirical studies show that Chinese learners have difficulties achieving high level of intelligibility their pronunciation, one possible cause being the lack authentic context for practice. Mobile-assisted Language Learning (MALL), i.e., language learning assisted or enhanced thr...

The extracurricular presence of literature has a role as part learning in schools. Its existence provides extra space for students to deepen their insights into theory, appreciation and production literary works they can the classroom. purpose this community service activity that is integrated with Real Work Lecture provide solutions offered overcome problem. solution carried out by Training Sp...

We present a method for generating a video of a talking face. The method takes as inputs: (i) still images of the target face, and (ii) an audio speech segment; and outputs a video of the target face lip synched with the audio. The method runs in real time and is applicable to faces and audio not seen at training time. To achieve this we propose an encoder-decoder CNN model that uses a joint em...

The McGurk effect, in which auditory [ba] dubbed onto [ga] lip movements is perceived as "da" or "tha," was employed in a real-time task to investigate auditory-visual speech perception in prelingual infants. Experiments 1A and 1B established the validity of real-time dubbing for producing the effect. In Experiment 2, 4 1/2-month-olds were tested in a habituation-test paradigm, in which an audi...

When partially reproductively isolated species come back into secondary contact, these taxa may diverge in mating preferences and sexual cues to avoid maladaptive hybridization, a process known as reinforcement. This phenomenon often leads to reproductive character displacement (RCD) between sympatric and allopatric populations of reinforcing species that differ in their exposure to hybridizati...

Voice conversion involves transformation of speaker characteristics in a speech uttered by a speaker called source speaker so as to generate a speech having voice characteristics of a desired speaker called target speaker. Voice conversion technology is used in many applications namely dubbing, to enhance the quality of the speech, text-to-speech synthesizers, online games, multimedia, music, c...

Definite phrases are often used to introduce new entities into discourse but the conditions under which this is possible are not well understood. Evans (2005) argued that the definite article may be used to introduce an entity if it is the most relevant of its type in its local frame of reference, dubbing this the “Small world hypothesis.” Additional arguments will be given in support of the Sm...

Abstract The Egyptian state's publication of its first National Human Rights Strategy 2021–2026 (NHRS) (2021) on the anniversary September 11th attacks came at crossroads Western pressure to improve human rights and use counterterrorism silence voices. recent arrests Coptic activists, dubbing them “terrorists” pretext disturbing public peace instigating sectarianism, follows regime's capitaliza...

Objectives: The McGurk–MacDonald illusory percept is obtained by dubbing an incongruent articulatory movement on an auditory phoneme. This type of audiovisual speech perception contributes to the assessment of theories of speech perception. The mismatch negativity (MMN) reflects the detection of a deviant stimulus within the auditory short-term memory and besides an acoustic component, possesse...