Sökning: "speech corpus"

Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 57 avhandlingar innehållade orden speech corpus.

  1. 1. Professionally Speaking - The prosodic and discourse structure of professional monologue in English

    Författare :Bryan D C Mosey; Engelska; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; paragraph; paratone; referential continuities; theme; discourse topic; fundamental frequency; finality; nucleus; accent; pause; speech-rate; tone-unit; discourse analysis; intonation; prosody; monologue; speech; spoken English; corpus; neural network; English language and literature; Engelska språk och litteratur ;

    Sammanfattning : This thesis combines corpus-based, experimental and instrumental methods to investigate how professional speakers of English use prosody to signal important textual boundaries above the sentence level. In an initial study, prosodic features included in the transcriptions of the Spoken English Corpus, or readily derivable from these, are investigated. LÄS MER

  3. 2. Disfluency in Swedish human–human and human–machine travel booking dialogues

    Författare :Robert Eklund; Lars Ahrenberg; Linköpings universitet; []
    Nyckelord :NATURVETENSKAP; NATURAL SCIENCES; Speech; Speech disorders; Speech intelligibility; Speech perception; Computer linguistics; phonetic; Man-computer-interaction; Computational linguistics; Datorlingvistik;

    Sammanfattning : This thesis studies disfluency in spontaneous Swedish speech, i.e., the occurrence of hesitation phenomena like eh, öh, truncated words, repetitions and repairs, mispronunciations, truncated words and so on. LÄS MER

  4. 3. El uso de combinaciones de palabras con que en un corpus de aprendices suecos de español como lengua extranjera

    Författare :Aymé Pino Rodríguez; Jönköping University; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Corpus linguistics; Contrastive analysis; Learners corpus; Spanish as a Foreign Language; Word combinations; Idiom principle; Collocations; Interlanguage; Lingüística de corpus; Análisis contrastivo; Corpus de aprendices; Español como lengua extranjera; Combinaciones de palabras; Principio idiomático; Colocaciones; Interlengua; Corpus linguistics; Contrastive analysis; Learners corpus; Spanish as a Foreign Language; Word combinations; Idiom principle; Collocations; Interlanguage.;

    Sammanfattning : Previous research in phraseological studies has approached the difficulties that learners of foreign and second languages have to produce word combinations derived from idiomatic- or phraseological principles. Using the theoretical framework of Sinclair’s idiom principle and applying a corpus-based methodological approach to contrastive linguistics and the study of interlanguage, I have analyzed the use of Spanish word sequences by Swedish learners. LÄS MER

  5. 4. Agreement with Collective Nouns in English

    Författare :Magnus Levin; Engelska; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; markedness; Longman Spoken American Corpus; grammatical change; corpus; conventionalization; concord; conceptualization; collective nouns; British National Corpus; British English; BNC; Australian English; American English; agreement; Agreement Hierarchy; pronouns; English language and literature; Engelska språk och litteratur ; Grammar; semantics; semiotics; syntax; Grammatik; semantik; semiotik; agreement; English language; Engelsk språkvetenskap;

    Sammanfattning : This thesis concerns agreement with collective nouns in American, British and Australian English. It is based on material from newspaper corpora and spoken corpora. The findings suggest that dialectal, stylistic, diachronic, syntactic and semantic factors interact in the selection of singular and plural agreement. LÄS MER

  7. 5. Automatic speaker verification on site and by telephone: methods, applications and assessment

    Författare :Håkan Melin; Björn Granström; Mats Blomberg; Josef Bigün; KTH; []
    Nyckelord :NATURVETENSKAP; NATURAL SCIENCES; speaker recognition; speaker verification; speech technology; biometrics; access control; speech corpus; variance estimation; Information and language technology; Informations- och språkteknologi;

    Sammanfattning : Speaker verification is the biometric task of authenticating a claimed identity by means of analyzing a spoken sample of the claimant's voice. The present thesis deals with various topics related to automatic speaker verification (ASV) in the context of its commercial applications, characterized by co-operative users, user-friendly interfaces, and requirements for small amounts of enrollment and test data. LÄS MER