Speech pathologists thought that some of the trickiest-to-learn speech sounds can be misarticulated up to age 7, or even 8, without triggering a concern. The old data suggested therapists should recommend a “wait and watch” approach for a child who couldn’t pronounce [r] or [th] sound...
Diphthong (literally "two sounds" or "two tones") vowels are those that change quality during their pronunciation, or "glide", with a smooth movement of the tongue from one articulation to another, as in the English words eye, boy, and cow. Diphthongs and triphthongs can be represented ...
we also expect improvements in cognitive load with our system, considering that it increases the effective SNR of noisy sounds by up to 16 dB45. In contrast to studies using traditional denoising algorithms, a recent study has shown that deep learning based denoising23on hearing aids can improve...
Modern Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) systems are primarily designed to recognize normal speech. Due to a considerable acoustic mismatch between normal speech and whisper, ASR systems suffer from a significant loss of performance in whisper recogniti
the proverb: "the squeaky wheel gets the grease." Like alliteration, assonance uses repeated sounds to create a musical effect in which words echo one another—it's a scheme because this effect is achieved through repetition of words with certain sounds, not by playing with the meaning of ...
These initial observations open the avenues for audio texture analysis in COVID-19 and non-COVID-19 cough sounds, more rationale for breath and speech signals as well. An audio sound could qualify as a texture if it is long-term, non-sinusoidal, stochastic but still homogeneous in nature, ...
Also, note that the high gain required for low-level sounds also amplifies the noise. For this reason, hearing aids tend to be unsatisfactory in noisy environments. In the future, with better understanding of the hearing process, as well as with the availability of smaller and faster digital ...
Section A1. What is language (sounds, symbols, a complex system, speech and writing) Language defined in simplest terms is a system of communication usingvocal symbols. Although its origin will never be fully known the oldestwritten symbolic language known is only 7,900 years at most. Spoken...
www.nature.com/scientificreports OPEN Testosterone therapy masculinizes speech and gender presentation in transgender men Carolyn R. Hodges‑Simeon1,7*, Graham P. O. Grail1,2,7, Graham Albert1, Matti D. Groll3,5, Cara E. Stepp3,4,5, Justin M. Carré6...
Interestingly, transition times for cough and the plosive sounds are closer to the 0.1 s found in literature, whereas transition times for the nasal and fricative cases are distinctly longer. This may be due to the cough and plosive cases’ very high \(L/D\) compared to nasal and fricative...