The species-specific organizational property of speech is a continual mouth open-close
alternation, the two phases of which are subject to continual articulatory modulation. The …

Japanese is often called a 'mora-timed'language, and contrasted with 'stress-timed'or
'syllable-timed'languages. The definition of what constitutes mora-timing has undergone …

Forty-three normal hearing participants were tested in two experiments, which focused on
temporal coincidence in auditory visual (AV) speech perception. In these experiments, audio …

This book explores the origin and evolution of speech. The human speech system is in a
league of its own in the animal kingdom and its possession dwarfs most other evolutionary …

Temporal properties of the speech signal are of potentially great importance for
understanding spoken language and may provide significant insight into the manner in …

Current-generation automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems model spoken discourse
as a quasi-linear sequence of words and phones. Because it is unusual for every phone …

Languages show systematic variation in their sound patterns and grammars. Accordingly,
they have been classified into typological categories such as stress-timed vs syllable-timed …

Finally a comprehensive overview of speech quality in VoIP from the user's perspective!
Speech Quality of VoIP is an essential guide to assessing the speech quality of VoIP …

Purpose Previous research demonstrated the ability of temporally based rhythm metrics to
distinguish among dysarthrias with different prosodic deficit profiles (JM Liss et al., 2009) …

Including information distributed over intervals of syllabic duration (100-250 ms) may greatly
improve the performance of automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems. ASR systems …