A complete overview of distant automatic speech recognition The performance of
conventional Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) systems degrades dramatically as soon …

The growing interest in the interfaces of prosody with other areas, notably pragmatics, has
led to an interesting cross-fertilization of methods such as the Discourse Completion Task …

Men's voices contain acoustic cues to body size and hormonal status, which have been
found to affect women's ratings of speaker size, masculinity and attractiveness. However, the …

Extensive research has explored the perception of English lexical stress by Chinese EFL
learners and tried to unveil the underlying mechanism of the prosodic transfer from a native …

Comment les paramètres prosodiques varient-ils en fonction des styles de parole? L'étude
de la variation stylistique part du constat qu'un locuteur adapte sa manière de parler en …

В монографии очерчен круг проблем, связанных с особенностями автоматического
анализа разговорной русской речи в интерактивных диалоговых системах. Описаны …

This dissertation examined the perception and production of intonation among 55 English-
native speakers of Spanish at three proficiency levels (low, high, and very high). Their …

Listeners are typically able to identify speech as either being produced spontaneously or
read from a transcript. In the present research we investigated whether this is true in …

Expressive text-to-speech (E-TTS) synthesis is important for enhancing user experience in
communication with machines using the speech modality. However, one of the challenges in …

Although the way tones are acquired by second or foreign language learners has attracted
some scholarly attention, detailed knowledge of the factors that promote efficient learning is …