This study investigates the mechanism of tonal contraction when a disyllabic unit is merged into a monosyllable at fast speech rate in Taiwan Mandarin. Various degrees of contract...
When no training or adaptation data is available, semisupervised training is a good alternative for processing new domains. We perform Bayesian training of a part-of-speech (POS) ...
The current study reports specific cases in which a positive transfer of perceptual ability from the music domain to the language domain occurs. We tested whether musical training...
Makiko Sadakata, Lotte van der Zanden, Kaoru Sekiy...
In this paper, we compare and combine different approaches for instrumentally predicting the perceived quality of Text-to-Speech systems. First, a log-likelihood is determined by ...
It is well known that the lowest tone in Mandarin, a language without contrastive phonation, often co-occurs with laryngealization/creaky voice quality, and we provide evidence th...