scholarly journals Towards understanding speaker discrimination abilities in humans and machines for text-independent short utterances of different speech styles

2018 ◽  
Vol 144 (1) ◽  
pp. 375-386 ◽  
Author(s):  
Soo Jin Park ◽  
Gary Yeung ◽  
Neda Vesselinova ◽  
Jody Kreiman ◽  
Patricia A. Keating ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Speech Styles ◽  
Speaker Discrimination ◽  
Short Utterances

Schwa Deletion in Word-Initial Syllables of Polysyllabic Words

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Yaru Wu ◽  
Martine Adda-Decker ◽  
Lori Lamel
Keyword(s):  
Speech Styles ◽  
Casual Speech

This study aims to analyse factors that could influence schwa deletion in word-initial syllables of polysyllabic words in continuous French speech. Both phonological and extralinguistic factors were considered: number of consonants, post-lexical context, speech style, sex and profession. Three large corpora covering different speech styles were explored using forced alignment with optional schwa variants. Formal journalistic ESTER corpus, conversational journalistic ETAPE corpus and casual speech NCCFr corpus were used in this study. We observe that schwa tends to be deleted more for 2C-words than for 3C-words. Words preceded by a consonant or a pause tend to prevent schwa deletion whereas words preceded by a vowel tend to facilitate schwa deletion. The less formal the speech style is, the more schwas are deleted. Males tend to delete schwas more frequently than females. Interestingly, journalists tend to delete more schwas than politicians in our data.

scholarly journals Auditory speaker discrimination using modal and falsetto speech

2021 ◽  
Vol 42 (1) ◽  
pp. 62-64
Author(s):  
Kanae Amino ◽  
Maki Shono ◽  
Takayuki Arai
Keyword(s):  
Speaker Discrimination

scholarly journals Speech Styles Used By Bagas as the Main Character in Pakai Hati the Series

K ta Kita ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 187-194
Author(s):  
Nathania Edlyn Sosrohartono
Keyword(s):  
Personality Type ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
Qualitative Approach ◽  
Social Dimension ◽  
Main Character ◽  
Speech Styles ◽  
Web Series ◽  
Formal Style

This study aims to find the speech styles used by Bagas as the main character in Pakai Hati The Series when he talked to his colleagues, clients, and supervisors.  In conducting this study, I used the theory of speech styles by Chaer and Agustina (2010), standard Indonesian characteristics by Prihantini (2015) and Kridalaksana (2007), social dimension by Holmes (2017), and status by Brown and Attardo (2005) as the theoretical framework. This study employed a qualitative approach. From the analysis, I found that Bagas used the consultative style, casual style, and intimate style when talking to his colleagues, clients, and bosses. He also used the formal style towards his clients, but he did not use the frozen style when talking to his interlocutors. This study showed that Bagas did not differentiate his speech style merely based on status since there were some other factors that might affect his choice of speech style, namely: habit or personality, type or context of the conversation, and social distance.Keywords: speech styles, status, web series

scholarly journals Listener Perception of Monopitch, Naturalness, and Intelligibility for Speakers With Parkinson's Disease

2015 ◽  
Vol 58 (4) ◽  
pp. 1134-1144 ◽  
Author(s):  
Supraja Anand ◽  
Cara E. Stepp
Keyword(s):  
Parkinson’S Disease ◽  
Parkinson's Disease ◽  
Speech Intelligibility ◽  
Potential Significance ◽  
Rehabilitation Outcomes ◽  
Rate Method ◽  
Highly Correlated ◽  
Short Utterances ◽  
Speech Naturalness

PurposeGiven the potential significance of speech naturalness to functional and social rehabilitation outcomes, the objective of this study was to examine the effect of listener perceptions of monopitch on speech naturalness and intelligibility in individuals with Parkinson's disease (PD).MethodTwo short utterances were extracted from monologue samples of 16 speakers with PD and 5 age-matched adults without PD. Sixteen listeners evaluated these stimuli for monopitch, speech naturalness and intelligibility using the visual sort and rate method.ResultsNaïve listeners can reliably judge monopitch, speech naturalness, and intelligibility with minimal familiarization. While monopitch and speech intelligibility were only moderately correlated, monopitch and speech naturalness were highly correlated.ConclusionsA great deal of attention is currently being paid to improvement of vocal loudness and thus speech intelligibility in PD. Our findings suggest that prosodic characteristics such as monopitch should be explored as adjuncts to this treatment of dysarthria in PD. Development of such prosodic treatments may enhance speech naturalness and thus improve quality of life.

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