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INTERSPEECH
2010
15 years 1 months ago
Exploring the mechanism of tonal contraction in taiwan Mandarin
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...
Chierh Cheng, Yi Xu, Michele Gubian
INTERSPEECH
2010
15 years 1 months ago
Semi-supervised part-of-speech tagging in speech applications
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) ...
Richard Dufour, Benoît Favre
INTERSPEECH
2010
15 years 1 months ago
Influence of musical training on perception of L2 speech
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...
INTERSPEECH
2010
15 years 1 months ago
Comparison of approaches for instrumentally predicting the quality of text-to-speech systems
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 ...
Sebastian Möller, Florian Hinterleitner, Tiag...
INTERSPEECH
2010
15 years 1 months ago
Laryngealization and features for Chinese tonal recognition
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...
Kristine M. Yu