This paper presents an approach to estimating word level prominence in Swedish using syllable level features. The paper discusses the mismatch problem of annotations between word ...
While automatic methods for phonetic segmentation of speech can help with rapid annotation of corpora, most methods rely either on manually segmented data to initially train the p...
This paper presents a study on the acoustic sub-segmental properties of word-final /t/ in conversational standard Dutch and how these properties contribute to whether humans and a...
Barbara Schuppler, Mirjam Ernestus, Wim A. van Dom...
Recent research has shown that speech can be sparsely represented using a dictionary of speech segments spanning multiple frames, exemplars, and that such a sparse representation ...
Networks are becoming a unifying framework for modeling complex systems and network inference problems are frequently encountered in many fields. Here, I develop and apply a gener...