PPT-2/18/12 1 Word Pronunciation

Julia Hirschberg CS 4706 21812 2 Today Motivation Challenges for automatic word pronunciation Standard methods Innovative solutions 21812 3 21812 3 TTS demos AT ampT Cepstral . Recognise the Feeling. PHRASES. MOODS. Good morning. Very worried. How are you?. Uncontrollably excited. Who are you?. Extremely angry . Can I sit here, please?. Deathly bored. Do I know you?. Deathly scared. Initialisms. A case study. Amanda . Payne. What are acronyms & . Initialisms. ?. In most cases, they are considered to be the same thing – “a word formed from the initial letters of other words”. For example - “scuba”.. Lecture . 11. Spoken Language Processing. Prof. Andrew Rosenberg. What is a pronunciation model?. 1. Acoustic . Model. Pronunciation. Model. Language. Model. Audio Features. Phone . Hypothese. Word . ••••••••••••••••••. Introducing. Muhammad . Aminul. Islam. . . Assistant Teacher,. Poshchim. . Pakuria. Govt. . Primary School. Nazirpur. , . Pirojpur. ••••••••••••••••••. (constrain, document, initial). constrain (V). PRONUNCIATION. : con-. STRAIN. DEFINITIONS. : a limit on sth, or a limit on your freedom to do sth.. SYNONYM(S):. limitation, necessity, pressure . WORD FAMILY WORDS: . 1. A brief history of the evolution of Hebrew. 2. The Classical Hebrew Alphabet. Zephaniah 3:8 Hebrew Text. Evolution of the Hebrew Aleph Beth. Proto-. Sinaitic. /Proto-Canaanite. . (1800 BC). Paleo. By. Dr. Mahima Singh. What we will cover:. What are minimal pairs?. Why do we have difficulty with minimal pairs?. Why learn to pronounce them correctly?. How to improve pronunciation?. Some resources for classroom. German Colors. German Colors. Color. German Word. Pronunciation. White. Weiß. Vice. Color. German Word. Pronunciation. Black. Schwarz. Shfarts. German Colors. Color. German Word. Pronunciation. Yellow. TEAM Workshop. Teaching ESL for excellence. 2 April 2011. Fluency:. Linking of Consonant & Vowel Sounds. one evening .  . o . neevening. a serious accident .  . a . seriou. . saccident. / /. ch. /. The teacher will write numbers 0-9 with a word beginning with /v/ or /w/ as follows. After writing all numbers with a word, the teacher will dictate to the students a telephone number (7-9 numbers) using the word for the number. The students will try to determine the number. After this, have students dictate to the class telephone numbers asking the other students to identify the number according to the word.. Clyne 2012. Pronunciation. Pronunciation is easy once you memorize the rules…. 1. If a word has an accent mark, stress the marked vowel. (So easy, right?). pronunciation. 2. If a word is not accented with an accent mark, the stress goes on the last syllable, unless. Lynn Henrichsen. Pronunciation . t. eaching in China. Unlikely that you will teach an entire course on pronunciation. HIGHLY likely (unavoidable) that you will teach pronunciation in one way or another. Pronunciation . Pausing and Chunking . Word stress. Why is pronunciation important?. Miscommunication can occur when someone:. speaks too fast. says words incorrectly. has a strong accent. hesitates too much when they speak. Molden, M. (2015). Employing Apple’s Siri to practice pronunciation: A preliminary study on Arabic speakers. Hawaii Pacific University TESOL Working PaperSeries 13, 217. Website: http://www.hpu.e