Acoustic Phonetics 2
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Keynote SpeechesText-To-Speech Synthesis 1Spoken Language Models and Dialog 1Prosody and Emotion 1Hidden Markov Model Techniques 1Speaker and Language Recognition 1Multimodal Spoken Language Processing 1Isolated Word RecognitionRobust Speech Processing in Adverse Environments 1Spoken Language Models and Dialog 2Articulatory Modelling 1Talking to Infants, Pets and LoversRobust Speech Processing in Adverse Environments 2Spoken Language Models and Dialog 3Speech Coding 1Articulatory Modelling 2Prosody and Emotion 2Neural Networks, Fuzzy and Evolutionary Methods 1Utterance Verification and Word Spotting 1 / Speaker Adaptation 1Text-To-Speech Synthesis 2Spoken Language Models and Dialog 4Human Speech Perception 1Robust Speech Processing in Adverse Environments 3Speech and Hearing Disorders 1Prosody and Emotion 3Spoken Language Understanding Systems 1Signal Processing and Speech Analysis 1Spoken Language Generation and Translation 1Spoken Language Models and Dialog 5Segmentation, Labelling and Speech Corpora 1Multimodal Spoken Language Processing 2Prosody and Emotion 4Neural Networks, Fuzzy and Evolutionary Methods 2Large Vocabulary Continuous Speech Recognition 1Speaker and Language Recognition 2Signal Processing and Speech Analysis 2Prosody and Emotion 5Robust Speech Processing in Adverse Environments 4Segmentation, Labelling and Speech Corpora 2Speech Technology Applications and Human-Machine Interface 1Large Vocabulary Continuous Speech Recognition 2Text-To-Speech Synthesis 3Language Acquisition 1Acoustic Phonetics 1Speaker Adaptation 2Speech Coding 2Hidden Markov Model Techniques 2Multilingual Perception and Recognition 1Large Vocabulary Continuous Speech Recognition 3Articulatory Modelling 3Language Acquisition 2Speaker and Language Recognition 3Text-To-Speech Synthesis 4Spoken Language Understanding Systems 4Human Speech Perception 2Large Vocabulary Continuous Speech Recognition 4Spoken Language Understanding Systems 2Signal Processing and Speech Analysis 3Human Speech Perception 3Speaker Adaptation 3Spoken Language Understanding Systems 3Multimodal Spoken Language Processing 3Acoustic Phonetics 2Large Vocabulary Continuous Speech Recognition 5Speech Coding 3Language Acquisition 3 / Multilingual Perception and Recognition 2Segmentation, Labelling and Speech Corpora 3Text-To-Speech Synthesis 5Spoken Language Generation and Translation 2Human Speech Perception 4Robust Speech Processing in Adverse Environments 5Text-To-Speech Synthesis 6Speech Technology Applications and Human-Machine Interface 2Prosody and Emotion 6Hidden Markov Model Techniques 3Speech and Hearing Disorders 2 / Speech Processing for the Speech and Hearing Impaired 1Human Speech ProductionSegmentation, Labelling and Speech Corpora 4Speaker and Language Recognition 4Speech Technology Applications and Human-Machine Interface 3Utterance Verification and Word Spotting 2Large Vocabulary Continuous Speech Recognition 6Neural Networks, Fuzzy and Evolutionary Methods 3Speech Processing for the Speech-Impaired and Hearing-Impaired 2Prosody and Emotion 72: SST Student Day
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Regional Variation in the Vowels of Female Adolescents from Sydney
Authors:
Felicity Cox, Speech Hearing and Language Research Centre, Macquarie University (Australia)
Sallyanne Palethorpe, Speech Hearing and Language Research Centre, Macquarie University (Australia)
Page (NA) Paper number 417
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This paper examines the assumption that Australian English vowel variation within urban centres is restricted to Broadness variation and is a consequence of socioeconomic rather than regional factors. The acoustic structure of vowel realisations for subjects across three different regions in Sydney is compared to shed some light on the theory of regional uniformity. 95 adolescent female speakers of General Australian English produced multiple repetitions of 18 different vowels in the h-d context. The vowel formants for each group were compared using ANOVA with post-hoc Bonferroni. Results revealed several significant area effects not necessarily associated with broadness variation. As area often subsumes a range of socioeconomic factors, it was necessary to also investigate whether some other socioeconomic indicator would account for the results. An examination of parental occupation, education and area confirm area as the most important of these factors in influencing vowel realisation for this group of speakers.
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A Kinematic Analysis Of New Zealand And Australian English Vowel Spaces
Authors:
Catherine Watson, Speech, Hearing, and Language Research Centre, Macquarie University (Australia)
Jonathan Harrington, Speech, Hearing, and Language Research Centre, Macquarie University (Australia)
Sallyanne Palethorpe, Speech, Hearing, and Language Research Centre, Macquarie University (Australia)
Page (NA) Paper number 633
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This study presents a kinematic and acoustic comparison of the vowels spaces of New Zealand English (NZE) and Australian English (AE). Five talkers of NZE (3F and 2M) and five female talkers of AE each produced between 9 - 15 tokens of the monophthongs in HEAD, HID,HAD, and HERD. For each token, measurements of lip aperture, lip protrusion, jaw height, and tongue height and backness were made, in addition to formants and vowel duration being calculated. There were three main findgs from this study. Firstly the widely held view that the NZE HID vowel may have lowered as it centralised may be incorrect. In this study results suggest that although the NZE HID vowel is retracted it remains a high front vowel. The second results is HERD is lip rounded in NZE and AE. The final finding is that there is no significant difference in vowel duration between NZE and AE HEAD and HAD, despite NZE HEAD and HAD being phonetically more raised. The implications of these results are discussed.
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Syllable-Onset Acoustic Properties Associated with Syllable-Coda Voicing
Authors:
Noël Nguyen, Laboratory for Psycholinguistics, University of Geneva (Switzerland)
Sarah Hawkins, Dept.of Linguistics, University of Cambridge (U.K.)
Page (NA) Paper number 539
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This study investigates durational and spectral variation in syllable-onset /l/s dependent on voicing in the coda. 1560 pairs of (C)lVC monosyllables differing in the voicing of the final stop were read by 4 British English speakers. Onset /l/ was longer before voiced than voiceless codas, and darker (for 3 speakers) as measured by F2 frequency and spectral centre of gravity. Differences due to other variables (lexical status, isolation/carrier context, syllable onset, vowel quality and regional accent) are outlined. It is proposed that coda voicing is a feature associated with the whole syllable, phonetically implemented as a variety of properties spread throughout the syllabic domain. Implications for word recognition are outlined.
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Articulatory, Acoustic and Perceptual Aspects of Fricative-Stop Coarticulation
Authors:
Noël Nguyen, FPSE, University of Geneva (Switzerland)
Alan A. Wrench, Queen Margaret College, Edinburgh (U.K.)
Fiona Gibbon, Queen Margaret College, Edinburgh (U.K.)
William J. Hardcastle, Queen Margaret College, Edinburgh (U.K.)
Page (NA) Paper number 533
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Stops are not identified in the same way depending on preceding fricatives. According to Mann and Repp (1981), such context-dependent variations in the perception of stops originate from the influence of fricatives on how stops are produced. This study aimed further to explore this hypothesis. A first experiment showed that the effect of fricatives on the identification of stops tends to be confined to the most ambiguous stimuli, when a large range of acoustic cues to place of stop articulation is provided to the listener. In a second experiment, articulatory and acoustic data were gathered in the production of fricative-stop sequences. Although on the whole consistent with previous findings, our results indicate that many articulatory dimensions are brought into play in fricative-stop articulatory patterns, thus making it difficult to establish a direct link between the articulatory and perceptual levels.
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Efficiency As An Organizing Principle Of Natural Speech
Authors:
Rob J.J.H. Van Son, University of Amsterdam, Institute of Phonetic Sciences/IFOTT (The Netherlands)
Florien J. Koopmans-van Beinum, University of Amsterdam, Institute of Phonetic Sciences/IFOTT (The Netherlands)
Louis C.W. Pols, University of Amsterdam, Institute of Phonetic Sciences/IFOTT (The Netherlands)
Page (NA) Paper number 203
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A large part of the variation in natural speech appears along the dimensions of articulatory precision / perceptual distinctiveness. We propose that this variation is the result of an effort to communicate efficiently. Speaking is considered efficient if the speech sound contains only the information needed to understand it. This efficiency is tested by means of a corpus of spontaneous and matched read speech, and syllable and word frequencies as measures of information content (12007 syllables, 8046 word forms, 1582 intervocalic consonants, and 2540 vowels). It is indeed found that the duration and spectral reduction of consonants and vowels correlate with the frequency of syllables and words in this corpus. Consonant intelligibility correlates with both the acoustic factors and the syllable and word frequencies. It is concluded that the principle of efficient communication organizes at least some aspects of speech production.
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Within-Speaker Variability Due to Speaking Manners
Authors:
Inger Karlsson, KTH (Sweden)
Tanja Banziger, FAPSE (Switzerland)
Jana Dankovicova, CULD (U.K.)
Tom Johnstone, FAPSE (Switzerland)
Johan Lindberg, KTH (Sweden)
Haakan Melin, KTH (Sweden)
Francis Nolan, CULD Department of Linguistics, University of Cambridge (U.K.)
K. Scherer, FAPSE Department of Psychology, University of Geneva (Switzerland)
Page (NA) Paper number 737
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Some preliminary investigations of within-speaker variations due to voluntary and induced speaking manners have been performed. The ultimate aim of the investigations was to suggest methods to take care of within-speaker variations in automatic speaker verification. Special software was developed to systematically elicit different types of voluntary and involuntary speech variations that might realistically occur in every-day situations. A database containing speech from 50 Swedish male speakers was collected using this software. Acoustic analyses have been performed on and the results compared between voluntary and involuntary speech variations. The acoustic parameters that have been studied included segment durations, formant frequencies at vowel midpoints, fundamental frequency and overall amplitude and amplitude in frequency bands.