PPT-Prosody Modeling (in Speech)

b y Julia Hirschberg Presented by Elaine Chew QMUL ELE021ELED021ELEM021 26 March 2012 Sources Hirschberg J 2012 Lecture notes on Prosody Modeling draws from Hirschberg J 2011 Interspeech. Sieb Nooteboom Research Institute for Language and Speech Utrecht University Trans 10 3512 JK UTRECHT Netherlands 1. INTRODUCTION ’ comes from ancient Greek, where it was used for a “ Heather Allison. Jessica . Shortridge. Are you tired of your child reading poorly?. Then try these techniques... Repeated Reading. Text segmenting. Auditory Modeling. Better?. . Reading fluency is often a neglected goal of elementary classrooms, but if these techniques were put into practice readers would reap the benefits!. What is language? What is it for?. Rapid efficient communication. (as such, other kinds of communication might be called language for our purposes and might share underlying neural mechanisms). Two broad but interacting domains:. Dr. Rachel Mitchell. Dept. of Psychology, Durham Univ.. What is prosody?. Higher order language function:. Paralinguistic. or . pragmatic. phenomenon that accompanies words & can modify or influence meaning . Lecture 13. Spoken Language Processing. Prof. Andrew Rosenberg. Linguistics View of Speech Recognition. Speech is a sequence of articulatory gestures. Many parallel levels of description. Phonetic, Phonologic. • Definition of prosody – Intonation: pitch and boundaries – Timing within intonation phrases–Stress • Intonational phrasing in production: Two factors: • Intonat of articulation . in . unvoiced stops . with . spectro. -temporal surface . modeling . V. . Karjigi. . , . P. . Rao. Dept. of Electrical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, . Powai. , Mumbai 400076, India . By : Ahmed Aly. 06/05/2013. Project description. The main goal of this project is to study the effect of using linguistics knowledge on the task of speech recognition.. I am studying the usage of such knowledge in the following contexts : . Strategies of Performance Revealed in Graphs. Elaine Chew. ELE021 / ELED021 / ELEM021. 6 Feb 2012. Logistics. 2-3 papers/presentations per week. two volunteers for afternoon of Mon, 27 Feb, 2012. Exam questions will be drawn from readings/presentations and assignments. MUSIC 318 MINI-COURSE ON SPEECH AND SINGING. Science of Sound, Chapter 16. Springer Handbook . of Acoustics, Chapter 16. RHYTHM. A STRIKING CHARACTERISTIC OF A FOREIGN LANGUAGE IS ITS RHYTHM. . ENGLISH, RUSSIAN, ARABIC AND THAI ARE STRESS-TIMED LANGUAGES. STRESSED SYLLABLES RECUR AT APPROXIMATELY EQUAL INTERVALS. SYLLABLES MOST OFTEN END WITH A CONSONANT.. Shune, . PhD, . CCC-SLP. sshune@uoregon.edu. Preview. Brief introduction to motor speech disorders. Brief neuroanatomy primer. Video samples. Introduction. Neurogenic Communication Disorders. Neurogenic communication disorders can be defined as impairments in speaking, listening, reading, and writing skills that result from damage in different parts of the nervous system.. Dawn Bowers PhD LXBlonder PhD KM HeilmanCenter for Neuropsychological Studies Cognitive Neuroscience Laboratory University of Florida 1991 rev1999 Page 2of 20TABLE OF CONTENTSBackgroundTheoretic Over Afsaneh . Asaei. Joint work with: . Mohammad . Golbabaee. ,. Herve. Bourlard, . Volkan. . Cevher. φ. 21. φ. 52. s. 1. s. 2. s. 3. . s. 4. s. 5. x. 1. x. 2. φ. 11. φ. 42. 2. Speech . Separation Problem. Jennifer Gray, M.S., CCC-SLP. Disclosure Statement. Grays Peak Speech Service, LLC. Private practice (children, teens, and adults), Early Intervention, and early education providing speech, language, and feeding services..