PPT-Pronunciation Modeling

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 . for hours brPage 6br The sha e of the The sha e of the world was an world was an enigma enigma that that enigma enigma that that befuddled people befuddled people for years for years for years for years brPage 7br brPage 8br brPage 9br brPage 10br b 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”.. Pronunciation 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. Language Learning . (CALL. ). References. : . “An Overview of Spoken Language Technology for Education”, Speech Communications, 51, pp.832-844, 2009. “Computer-assisted Language Learning (CALL) Systems”, Tutorial, . SLP-L1 . Human . Spoken Language Acquisition and Learning. Hsiao-. Tsung. Hung. Outline. SLP-L1.1: FEEDBACK UTTERANCES FOR COMPUTER-AIDED LANGUAGE LEARNING USING ACCENT REDUCTION AND VOICE CONVERSION METHOD. あ. え. い. う. お. Three types of writing. 私　は　カナダ　に　行きます。. Kanji. Hiragana. Katakana. Kanji. 　漢字. Chinese or native-Japanese origin. used for whole words . used for parts of words. Read . by Danny Christensen. Compiled by Helen Farrell, Dai Fei Yang, John Nicholls & Jason Yang. As a nurse, being able to communicate. clearly with patients and hospital staff. is very important. This video with the. 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. UNIT 1: MEASUREMENT. LOOK AT THE PICTURES. IN PAIRS MAKE QUESTIONS. . UNIT 1: MEASUREMENT. MEASUREMENT QUIZ. UNIT 1: MEASUREMENT. 1. . What. . can. . be. . odd. and . even. ?. UNIT 1: MEASUREMENT. 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. Julia Hirschberg. CS 4706. 2/18/12. 2. Today. Motivation. Challenges for automatic word pronunciation. Standard methods. Innovative solutions. 2/18/12. 3. 2/18/12. 3. TTS demos:. AT. &T . Cepstral .