The Qur'an, a holy book revealed by Allah SWT, contains the rules and stories of previous people to strengthen truth Islam. In these stories, there is communication between important figures people, which beautiful literary values so that humans easily understand them. One them surah al-Kahf summarizes four stories: Ashabul Kahf, Owner two gardens, Musa Khidlir, Dzulqarnain, contain many unusua...

the main goal of early detection of hearing impairment in children is early intervention. there is growing interest in early detection of hearing impairment in developing countries. the main purpose of this study was to investigate the spoken language development in severe to profound hearing impaired children and compared their speech intelligibility with normal hearing children at the same ag...

This paper introduces a large-scale phonetically-balanced English speech corpus developed at ATR for corpus-based speech synthesis. This corpus includes a 16-hour American English speech data spoken by a professional male narrator in “reading style.” The contents of prompt sentences concern basically news articles, travel conversations, and novels. The prompt sentences were selected from huge c...

speech sciences deal with the acoustical characteristics of speech by means of sophisticated soft wares as well as hard wares. although, a speech science is a well known science in the developed countries, especially the western societies, however, it has been remained almost unknown in iran, though, in recent years a group of scholars have been involved in this branch of science. the applicati...

This article explores the linguo-pragmatic potential of hedging, which is a means speech insurance. The purpose study to identify and describe linguistically hedging used by journalists in Swiss articles on economic issues, taking into account peculiarities language situation German-speaking Switzerland. An attempt made determine pragmatic function identified instruments. materials are fragment...

In this paper, we propose a single-channel speech enhancement method in terms of subspace techniques to reduce the noises from speech signals in various noises environment. This subspace approach based on Karhunen-Loève transform and implemented via Principal component analysis. The optimal subspace selection is provided by a minimum description length criterion. An offset factor generated from...

Speech is one of the most opulent and instant methods to express emotional characteristics of human beings, which conveys the cognitive and semantic concepts among humans. In this study, a statistical-based method for emotional recognition of speech signals is proposed, and a learning approach is introduced, which is based on the statistical model to classify internal feelings of the utterance....