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SPEECH
2010
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Similarity and familiarity: Second language sentence recognition in first- and second-language multi-talker babble
The intelligibility of speech in noisy environments depends not only on the functionality of listeners' peripheral auditory systems, but also on cognitive factors such as the...
Kristin J. Van Engen
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NIPS
2003
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Unsupervised Context Sensitive Language Acquisition from a Large Corpus
We describe a pattern acquisition algorithm that learns, in an unsupervised fashion, a streamlined representation of linguistic structures from a plain natural-language corpus. Th...
Zach Solan, David Horn, Eytan Ruppin, Shimon Edelm...
LREC
2008
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Borrowing Language Resources for Development of Automatic Speech Recognition for Low- and Middle-Density Languages
In this paper we describe an approach that both creates crosslingual acoustic monophone model sets for speech recognition tasks and objectively predicts their performance without ...
Lynette Melnar, Chen Liu
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INTERSPEECH
2010
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An intonation model for TTS in sepedi
We present an initial investigation into the acoustic realisation of tone in continuous utterances in Sepedi (a language in the Southern Bantu family). An analytic model for the g...
Daniel R. van Niekerk, Etienne Barnard
TSD
2009
Springer
15 years 4 months ago
On a Computational Model for Language Acquisition: Modeling Cross-Speaker Generalisation
Abstract. The discovery of words by young infants involves two interrelated processes: (a) the detection of recurrent word-like acoustic patterns in the speech signal, and (b) cros...
Louis ten Bosch, Joris Driesen, Hugo Van Hamme, Lo...