Ability to perceive non‐native contrasts with natural and synthetic speech stimuli

1998 ◽  
Vol 104 (3) ◽  
pp. 1835-1835
Author(s):  
Peter C. Gordon ◽  
Lisa Keyes ◽  
Yiu‐Fai Yung
Keyword(s):  
Synthetic Speech ◽  
Speech Stimuli ◽  
Natural And Synthetic

scholarly journals Ability in perceiving nonnative contrasts: Performance on natural and synthetic speech stimuli

2001 ◽  
Vol 63 (4) ◽  
pp. 746-758 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter C. Gordon ◽  
Lisa Keyes ◽  
Yiu-Fai Yung
Keyword(s):  
Synthetic Speech ◽  
Speech Stimuli ◽  
Natural And Synthetic

Grammatical Morphology and Perception of Synthetic and Natural Speech in Children With Specific Language Impairments

2002 ◽  
Vol 45 (3) ◽  
pp. 494-504 ◽  
Author(s):  
Julia L. Evans ◽  
Kert Viele ◽  
Robert E. Kass ◽  
Feng Tang
Keyword(s):  
Speech Perception ◽  
Natural Speech ◽  
Synthetic Speech ◽  
Inflectional Morphology ◽  
Phonological Representations ◽  
Speech Stimuli ◽  
Specific Language Impairments ◽  
Rate Of Decline ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Natural And Synthetic

Studies investigating the relationship between the use of inflectional morphology and speech-perception abilities in children with SLI traditionally have employed synthetic speech stimuli. The purpose of this study was to replicate the findings reported in Leonard, McGregor, and Allen (1992) with an older group of children with SLI and to determine if the pattern of deficits seen for synthetic speech extends to perception of natural speech stimuli. The speech-perception abilities of 27 children between the ages of 6;11 and 8;11 (15 SLI and 12 NL) were compared using natural and synthetic versions of the [das]-[da∫], [dabiba]-[dabuba], and [i]-[u] contrast pairs originally used in Leonard et al. The findings reported by Leonard et al. were replicated with synthetic speech but not for the natural speech. Use of inflectional morphology in obligatory contexts by the children with SLI was not significantly correlated with their perception abilities for any of the natural or synthetic speech-contrast pairs. Further, although both groups' ability to maintain the target contrast in memory declined over the span of the trials for all target contrasts for both natural and synthetic speech, the rate of decline did not differ significantly between the SLI and NL groups. Findings are discussed with respect to possible deficits in linking phonological representations to grammatical representations in children with SLI.

Perceptual attention in monitoring natural and synthetic speech

1985 ◽  
Vol 78 (S1) ◽  
pp. S83-S83
Author(s):  
Howard C. Nusbaum ◽  
Steven L. Greenspan ◽  
David B. Pisoni
Keyword(s):  
Synthetic Speech ◽  
Perceptual Attention ◽  
Natural And Synthetic

Cue enhancement by stimulus repetition: Natural and synthetic speech comparisons

1985 ◽  
Vol 78 (2) ◽  
pp. 458-462 ◽  
Author(s):  
John E. Clark ◽  
P. Dermody ◽  
Sallyanne Palethorpe
Keyword(s):  
Synthetic Speech ◽  
Stimulus Repetition ◽  
Natural And Synthetic

On‐line measures of comprehension of natural and synthetic speech

1989 ◽  
Vol 85 (S1) ◽  
pp. S125-S125
Author(s):  
James V. Ralston ◽  
John W. Mullennix ◽  
Beth G. Greene ◽  
Scott E. Lively
Keyword(s):  
Synthetic Speech ◽  
On Line ◽  
Natural And Synthetic

Can native Japanese listeners learn to differentiate /r–l/ on the basis of F3 onset frequency?

2011 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 255-274 ◽  
Author(s):  
ERIN M. INGVALSON ◽  
LORI L. HOLT ◽  
JAMES L. McCLELLAND
Keyword(s):  
Category Membership ◽  
Forced Choice ◽  
Synthetic Speech ◽  
Reliable Indicator ◽  
Training Effect ◽  
Training Task ◽  
Speech Stimuli ◽  
Final Performance ◽  
The Third

Many attempts have been made to teach native Japanese listeners to perceptually differentiate English /r–l/ (e.g.rock–lock). Though improvement is evident, in no case is final performance native English-like. We focused our training on the third formant onset frequency, shown to be the most reliable indicator of /r–l/ category membership. We first presented listeners with instances of synthetic /r–l/ stimuli varying only in F3 onset frequency, in a forced-choice identification training task with feedback. Evidence of learning was limited. The second experiment utilized an adaptive paradigm beginning with non-speech stimuli consisting only of /r/ and /l/ F3 frequency trajectories progressing to synthetic speech instances of /ra–la/; half of the trainees received feedback. Improvement was shown by some listeners, suggesting some enhancement of /r–l/ identification is possible following training with only F3 onset frequency. However, only a subset of these listeners showed signs of generalization of the training effect beyond the trained synthetic context.

Comprehension of natural and synthetic speech using a sentence verification task

1986 ◽  
Vol 79 (S1) ◽  
pp. S25-S25 ◽  
Author(s):  
Laura M. Manous ◽  
David B. Pisoni ◽  
Michael J. Dedina ◽  
Howard C. Nusbaum
Keyword(s):  
Synthetic Speech ◽  
Verification Task ◽  
Natural And Synthetic
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