(also called determinatives) modify nouns and are therefore generally considered to be adjectives, but they differ from other adjectives in that their exact meaning is supplied bycontext. They include articles, demonstrative pronouns, possessive pronouns, and quantifiers. Examples of determiners include...
Today, we remain firmly committed to our shared aspiration forged in the early days and are pursuing win-win cooperation. Since we established the comprehensive strategic cooperative partnership 15 years ago, we the Communist Party of China and the Communist Party of Vietnam have pursued people-cen...
(understand) its meaning in sentences.It is no wonder 6._t_h_a_t _ your English is good.It is requested 7._t_h_at_ everyone should master proper methods of learning.8._I_t _was a shame that I hadn't asked you for help earlier.I will try my best to improve my English....
Winston Churchill delivered the Iron Curtain speech in Fulton, Missouri, U.S., on March 5, 1946. In it he stressed the necessity for the United States and Britain to act as the guardians of peace and stability against the menace of Soviet communism, whic
Speech recognition technology is evaluated on its accuracy rate, i.e. word error rate (WER), and speed. A number of factors can impact word error rate, such as pronunciation, accent, pitch, volume, and background noise. Reaching human parity – meaning an error rate on par with that of...
Introducing Text to Speech: The Meaning and Science of TTS Your definitive introduction to TTS technology starts with a fundamental question: What is TTS? In other words, what does TTS mean? Text-to-speech technology is software that takes text as an input and produces audible speech as an ...
During this task, participants were shown pictures of everyday objects (such as a broom) while being played an audio clip of a word that is either related in meaning (such as "mop"—which makes it harder to think of the picture's name) or which sounds similar (such as "groom"—which...
(opercular part). This route allows for conversion from graphemes to phonemes and post-assembly phonetic segmentation associated with articulatory planning (Fiebach et al., 2002; Jobard et al., 2003). The dorsal phonological route is also called the indirect route because semantic meaning is ...
Mandarin Chinese has four non-neutral syllabic pitch contours (i.e., tones) that change word meaning and are lexically irrelevant in English: high-level (Tone 1), low-rising (Tone 2), low-dipping (Tone 3), and high-falling (Tone 4) tones (Fig. 1a). While Mandarin tones are ...
Enigma (e-nig’-ma): Obscuring one’s meaning by presenting it within a riddle or by means of metaphors that purposefully challenge the reader or hearer to understand. “It’s no mystery to me.” I lied. Lately, everything was a mystery to me. The time had come for the King to los...