scholarly journals The Language Jungle: Speech training in a natural learning arena

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anne Lise Wie
Keyword(s):  
Speech Training

Perceptual Evaluation of Speech Naturalness in Speakers of Varying Gender Identities

2020 ◽  
Vol 63 (7) ◽  
pp. 2054-2069
Author(s):  
Brandon Merritt ◽  
Tessa Bent
Keyword(s):  
Spontaneous Speech ◽  
Identification Accuracy ◽  
Rating Task ◽  
Gender Identification ◽  
Identification Task ◽  
Male And Female ◽  
Perceptual Evaluation ◽  
Speech Training ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Speech Naturalness

Purpose The purpose of this study was to investigate how speech naturalness relates to masculinity–femininity and gender identification (accuracy and reaction time) for cisgender male and female speakers as well as transmasculine and transfeminine speakers. Method Stimuli included spontaneous speech samples from 20 speakers who are transgender (10 transmasculine and 10 transfeminine) and 20 speakers who are cisgender (10 male and 10 female). Fifty-two listeners completed three tasks: a two-alternative forced-choice gender identification task, a speech naturalness rating task, and a masculinity/femininity rating task. Results Transfeminine and transmasculine speakers were rated as significantly less natural sounding than cisgender speakers. Speakers rated as less natural took longer to identify and were identified less accurately in the gender identification task; furthermore, they were rated as less prototypically masculine/feminine. Conclusions Perceptual speech naturalness for both transfeminine and transmasculine speakers is strongly associated with gender cues in spontaneous speech. Training to align a speaker's voice with their gender identity may concurrently improve perceptual speech naturalness. Supplemental Material https://doi.org/10.23641/asha.12543158

Technologies of formation of speech competence foreign service officer

2020 ◽  
pp. 84-89
Author(s):  
O. Ovsyannikova
Keyword(s):  
Present Stage ◽  
Foreign Service ◽  
Speech Training

The article deals with the practice of speech training of specialists of the diplomatic service. The process of formation of speech competence of these specialists at the present stage in the leading diplomatic universities of our country is analyzed. Features of development of speech skills and abilities at studying of speech disciplines are revealed.

Speech training for the Armed Forces.

1943 ◽  
Vol 27 (6) ◽  
pp. 520-525 ◽  
Author(s):  
Charles H. Voelker
Keyword(s):  
Armed Forces ◽  
Speech Training

Progressive Speech Training

1941 ◽  
Vol 124 (8) ◽  
pp. 265-266
Author(s):  
Russell Tooze
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
North Dakota ◽  
Speech Training

How students in a North Dakota high school are led to improve their speech habits.

scholarly journals User Experiences from L2 Children Using a Speech Learning Application: Implications for Developing Speech Training Applications for Children

2018 ◽  
Vol 2018 ◽  
pp. 1-6 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maria Uther ◽  
Anna-Riikka Smolander ◽  
Katja Junttila ◽  
Mikko Kurimo ◽  
Reima Karhila ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
User Interface ◽  
Language Learning ◽  
Automatic Speech Recognition ◽  
English Language ◽  
Sound Quality ◽  
English Language Learning ◽  
User Experiences ◽  
Ui Design ◽  
Speech Training ◽  
Speech Learning

We investigated user experiences from 117 Finnish children aged between 8 and 12 years in a trial of an English language learning programme that used automatic speech recognition (ASR). We used measures that encompassed both affective reactions and questions tapping into the children' sense of pedagogical utility. We also tested their perception of sound quality and compared reactions of game and nongame-based versions of the application. Results showed that children expressed higher affective ratings for the game compared to nongame version of the application. Children also expressed a preference to play with a friend compared to playing alone or playing within a group. They found that assessment of their speech is useful although they did not necessarily enjoy hearing their own voices. The results are discussed in terms of the implications for user interface (UI) design in speech learning applications for children.

E-Learning-Based Speech Therapy: A Web Application for Speech Training

2010 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 177-180 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lilian J. Beijer ◽  
Toni C.M. Rietveld ◽  
Marijn M.A. van Beers ◽  
Robert M.L. Slangen ◽  
Henk van den Heuvel ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Web Application ◽  
Speech Therapy ◽  
E Learning ◽  
Speech Training
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