We provide a user-friendly automatic phonetic alignment tool for continuous speech, named
EasyAlign. It is developed as a plug-in of Praat, the popular speech analysis software, and it …

The technical production of this handbook has been a joint effort by several groups involving
a large number of people, and the success of the coordination process in itself is by no …

This paper describes the phonetic content of Albayzin, a spoken database for Spanish
designed for speech recognition purposes. A statistical study of a large sample of …

This paper introduces the concept of synthesis based on performance sampling. It explains
that although sampling has been considered a way to capture and reproduce the sound of …

Academic discourse (AD) is often understood as the name for a field in applied linguistics
that focuses on the language and discourse practices in the academic world, which may …

Objective: The current study describes the collection of a new phonemically-balanced
Spanish sentence resource, known as the Sharvard Corpus. Design: The resource contains …

The intelligibility of natural speech is seriously degraded when exposed to adverse noisy
environments. In this work, we propose a deep learning-based speech modification method …

The development of Automatic Lip-Reading (ALR) systems for continuous speech
recognition has so far limited their applicability to English since this is the only language with …

In this paper the transcription and evaluation of the corpus DIMEx100 for Mexican Spanish is
presented. First we describe the corpus and explain the linguistic and computational …

• A growing social and cultural importance of multilingualism, multiculturalism, and
languages in contact within the Spanish-speaking world, and the efforts made by …