Sökning: "Speech Communication"

Visar resultat 16 - 20 av 213 avhandlingar innehållade orden Speech Communication.

1. 16. Vad kommunikation vill säga : En iscensättande studie om specialpedagogers yrkesroll och kunskapande samtal

   Författare :Désirée von Ahlefeld Nisser; Rolf Helldin; Siv Fischbein; Kristina Ström; Stockholms universitet; []
   Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Deliberative communication; communicative perspective; dialogue pedagogic; special educator; action research; discourse; deliberativ kommunikation; kommunikativt perspektiv; dialogpedagogik; specialpedagog; aktionsforskning; diskurs; Education; Pedagogik; specialpedagogik; Special Education;

   Sammanfattning : This thesis is about the role of special educators in (pre)school and about developing democratic communication. It is based on the theory of argumentation developed by Jürgen Habermas. LÄS MER

3. 17. Counteracting Acoustic Disturbances in Human Speech Communication

   Författare :Nils Westerlund; []
   Nyckelord :TEKNIK OCH TEKNOLOGIER; ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY; Speech Enhancement; Noise Reduction; Hearing Aids; Adaptive Feedback Control; Ear-Mic; Active Noise Control;

   Sammanfattning : A signal can be said to be any information bearing unit or action carrying a message from a sender to a receiver. This definition covers a vast number of human and non-human actions, ranging from flirtation to satellite communication. This thesis deals with increasing the quality of one of the most ubiquitous human-to-human signals: Speech. LÄS MER

4. 18. Perceptually motivated speech recognition and mispronunciation detection

   Författare :Christos Koniaris; Olov Engwall; Martin Cooke; KTH; []
   Nyckelord :NATURVETENSKAP; NATURAL SCIENCES; TEKNIK OCH TEKNOLOGIER; ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY; NATURVETENSKAP; NATURAL SCIENCES; NATURVETENSKAP; NATURAL SCIENCES; feature extraction; feature selection; auditory models; MFCCs; speech recognition; distortion measures; perturbation analysis; psychoacoustics; human perception; sensitivity matrix; pronunciation error detection; phoneme; second language; perceptual assessment;

   Sammanfattning : This doctoral thesis is the result of a research effort performed in two fields of speech technology, i.e., speech recognition and mispronunciation detection. Although the two areas are clearly distinguishable, the proposed approaches share a common hypothesis based on psychoacoustic processing of speech signals. LÄS MER

5. 19. Emotional Communication in the Human Voice

   Författare :Henrik Nordström; Petri Laukka; Marc Pell; Stockholms universitet; []
   Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; emotion recognition; vocal expression; speech; acoustic parameters; Psychology; psykologi;

   Sammanfattning : Emotional communication is an important part of social interaction because it gives individuals valuable information about the state of others, allowing them to adjust their behaviors and responses appropriately. When people use the voice to communicate, listeners do not only interpret the words that are said, the verbal content, but also the information contained in how the words are said, the nonverbal content. LÄS MER

7. 20. Kommunikativa resurser för lärande : Barns gester, blickar och tal i tre skolmiljöer

   Författare :Mia Heikkilä; Ulf P Lundgren; Staffan Selander; Roger Säljö; Uppsala universitet; []
   Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; communication; learning; multimodality; social semiotics; children; interaction; preschool; preschool-class; first grade; Education; Pedagogik;

   Sammanfattning : The overall aim of this research has been to study how schools create possibilities for children to learn. Possibilities to communicate and to interact are seen as closely linked to a process of learn-ing in line with contemporary thinking of learning (Kress, 2003; Säljö, 2000; Selander, 2005). LÄS MER