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...
If listening in adverse conditions is hard, then listening in a foreign language is doubly so: non-native listeners have to cope with both imperfect signals and imperfect knowledg...
Maria Luisa Garcia Lecumberri, Martin Cooke, Anne ...
This paper shows that the effect of different types of noise on recognition of different phonemes by native versus non-native listeners is highly variable, even within classes of ...
In native speech, durational patterns convey linguistically relevant phenomena such as phrase structure, lexical stress, rhythm, and word boundaries. The lower intelligibility of ...
act 11 We analyze and compare two different methods for unsupervised extractive spontaneous speech summarization in the meeting 12 domain. Based on utterance comparison, we introdu...
Despite years of speech recognition research, little is known about which words tend to be misrecognized and why. Previous work has shown that errors increase for infrequent words...
Sharon Goldwater, Daniel Jurafsky, Christopher D. ...
In this paper the nature and relevance of the information provided by intonation is discussed in the framework of second language learning. As a consequence, an automatic intonati...
This article describes the preparation, recording and orthographic transcription of a new speech corpus, the Nijmegen Corpus of Casual French (NCCFr). The corpus contains a total ...
Francisco Torreira, Martine Adda-Decker, Mirjam Er...