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Vaziri, Ghazaleh. "Evaluation of Changes in Speech Production Induced by Conventional and Level-Dependent Hearing Protectors and Noise Characteristics." Thesis, Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/38501.
Повний текст джерелаLucas, Adrian Edward. "Acoustic level speech recognition." Thesis, University of Surrey, 1991. http://epubs.surrey.ac.uk/2819/.
Повний текст джерелаCampbell, Wilhelm. "Multi-level speech timing control." Thesis, University of Sussex, 1992. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.283832.
Повний текст джерелаChang, Hung-An Ph D. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. "Multi-level acoustic modeling for automatic speech recognition." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/74981.
Повний текст джерелаCataloged from PDF version of thesis.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 183-192).
Context-dependent acoustic modeling is commonly used in large-vocabulary Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) systems as a way to model coarticulatory variations that occur during speech production. Typically, the local phoneme context is used as a means to define context-dependent units. Because the number of possible context-dependent units can grow exponentially with the length of the contexts, many units will not have enough training examples to train a robust model, resulting in a data sparsity problem. For nearly two decades, this data sparsity problem has been dealt with by a clustering-based framework which systematically groups different context-dependent units into clusters such that each cluster can have enough data. Although dealing with the data sparsity issue, the clustering-based approach also makes all context-dependent units within a cluster have the same acoustic score, resulting in a quantization effect that can potentially limit the performance of the context-dependent model. In this work, a multi-level acoustic modeling framework is proposed to address both the data sparsity problem and the quantization effect. Under the multi-level framework, each context-dependent unit is associated with classifiers that target multiple levels of contextual resolution, and the outputs of the classifiers are linearly combined for scoring during recognition. By choosing the classifiers judiciously, both the data sparsity problem and the quantization effect can be dealt with. The proposed multi-level framework can also be integrated into existing large-vocabulary ASR systems, such as FST-based ASR systems, and is compatible with state-of-the-art error reduction techniques for ASR systems, such as discriminative training methods. Multiple sets of experiments have been conducted to compare the performance of the clustering-based acoustic model and the proposed multi-level model. In a phonetic recognition experiment on TIMIT, the multi-level model has about 8% relative improvement in terms of phone error rate, showing that the multi-level framework can help improve phonetic prediction accuracy. In a large-vocabulary transcription task, combining the proposed multi-level modeling framework with discriminative training can provide more than 20% relative improvement over a clustering baseline model in terms of Word Error Rate (WER), showing that the multi-level framework can be integrated into existing large-vocabulary decoding frameworks and that it combines well with discriminative training methods. In speaker adaptive transcription task, the multi-level model has about 14% relative WER improvement, showing that the proposed framework can adapt better to new speakers, and potentially to new environments than the conventional clustering-based approach.
by Hung-An Chang.
Ph.D.
Пазюра, Людмила Володимирівна, and Олександра Олександрівна Новікова. "Teaching oral russian speech at the beginner’s level." Thesis, Материали за XIV международна научна практична конференция, Новината за напреднали наука - 2018 , 15-22 май 2018 г. Филологическите науки. : София.« Бял ГРАД-БГ » - 140 c. (С. 17-21), 2018. http://er.nau.edu.ua/handle/NAU/35225.
Повний текст джерелаGolston, Chris. "Level-ordered Lexical Insertion: Evidence from Speech Errors." Department of Linguistics, University of Arizona (Tucson, AZ), 1991. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/227269.
Повний текст джерелаAgee, C., C. Bowden, and A. Lynn Williams. "Phonological Intervention with Children: Word vs. Conversation Level." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 1999. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/2103.
Повний текст джерелаHusein, Hish. "Audiologist as the entry level professional." Diss., NSUWorks, 2002. https://nsuworks.nova.edu/hpd_aud_stuetd/2.
Повний текст джерелаColombo, Mackenzie. "Is There a Significant Positive Correlation Between Paraphasias at the Level of Confrontation Naming to Paraphasias at the Level of Discourse and CIUs in Discourse?" The Ohio State University, 2019. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1554820396344076.
Повний текст джерелаElgie, Benjamin. "Activation of word-level speech production regions during suprasegmental speech perception differs by modality and task." Thesis, McGill University, 2011. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=104890.
Повний текст джерелаCette étude s'appuie sur de récentes hypothèses concernant la contribution en perception de la parole des aires cérébrales motrices et frontales, traditionnellement recrutées lors de la production de la parole. La création d'un masque fonctionnel calculé à partir des données d'une étude en imagerie par résonance magnétique fonctionelle (IRMf) portant sur la perception et la production de mots nous a permis de rechercher une éventuelle superposition entre la perception et la production de la parole. Ce masque a été à nouveau utilisé pour analyser d'éventuelles activations pendant une tâche de perception de phrases multi-modales issue d'une autre expérience d'IRMf. Des activités communes à la production et à la perception de mots, mais pas entre la production de mots et la production plus complexe de phrases, ont été mises en évidence. Contrairement à certaines affirmations, la perception visuelle de la parole n'a pas entraîné d'augmentation des activations dans les régions dédiées à la production de la parole. Des analyses de l'ensemble du cerveau lors de la perception et de la production des phrases ont révélé des différences complexes entre les régions spécifiques de la tâche ou de la modalité dans des aires frontales, temporales et occipitales. La modalité, la tâche et le niveau de complexité de la parole ont clairement influencé les activations observées lors de cette expérience. Les résultats obtenus sont discutés en regard des demandes spécifiques dues aux tâches et aux expériences menées ainsi que de la compréhension actuelle des contributions motrices/frontales lors de la perception de la parole.
Ng, Kei-chit Brenda. "Noncategorical perception of Cantonese level tones." Click to view the E-thesis via HKUTO, 2000. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record/B36207664.
Повний текст джерела"A dissertation submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the Bachelor of Science (Speech and Hearing Sciences), The University of Hong Kong, May 10, 2000." Also available in print.
King, Simon Alistair. "Using information above the word level for automatic speech recognition." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 1998. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/10380.
Повний текст джерелаBourgeois, Thomas C. "Deriving Abstract Representations Directly from the Level of Connected Speech." Department of Linguistics, University of Arizona (Tucson, AZ), 1990. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/227240.
Повний текст джерелаMurnane, Owen D., and J. K. Kelly. "Transient Evoked Otoacoustic Emissions: Effects of Stimulus Level." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2002. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/1915.
Повний текст джерелаJones, Matthew. "The use of acoustic-level prosodics in large vocabulary speech recognition." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 1994. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.339625.
Повний текст джерелаAl-Darkazali, Mohammed. "Image processing methods to segment speech spectrograms for word level recognition." Thesis, University of Sussex, 2017. http://sro.sussex.ac.uk/id/eprint/71675/.
Повний текст джерелаKamppari, Simo O. (Simo Olli) 1976. "Word and phone level acoustic confidence scoring for speech understanding systems." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2000. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/86458.
Повний текст джерелаIncludes bibliographical references (p. 89-91).
by Simo O. Kamppari.
M.Eng.
Rossi-Katz, Jessica A. "The contribution of lower-level and higher-level processes to age-related changes in competing-speech perception." Diss., Connect to online resource, 2006. http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:3239444.
Повний текст джерелаCase, Erik S. Sahliyeh Emile F. "State level causes of terrorism limits on political expression /." [Denton, Tex.] : University of North Texas, 2009. http://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc12092.
Повний текст джерелаPham, T. M. "Exploring strategies for incorporating population-level external information in multiple imputation of missing data." Thesis, University College London (University of London), 2018. http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/10044801/.
Повний текст джерелаMatar, Soud. "The impact of legal responsibility of external auditors on auditing quality and investment level." Thesis, Brunel University, 2012. http://bura.brunel.ac.uk/handle/2438/11988.
Повний текст джерелаEsplà-Gomis, Miquel. "Using external sources of bilingual information for word-level quality estimation in translation technologies." Doctoral thesis, Universidad de Alicante, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10045/54710.
Повний текст джерелаNatter, Martin, and Markus Feurstein. "Individual level or segmentation based market simulation?" SFB Adaptive Information Systems and Modelling in Economics and Management Science, WU Vienna University of Economics and Business, 1999. http://epub.wu.ac.at/1746/1/document.pdf.
Повний текст джерелаSeries: Working Papers SFB "Adaptive Information Systems and Modelling in Economics and Management Science"
Gabriel, Karim, and Sani Al Moudarres. "The development of a Speech Level Adjustment Technique for late Deaf People." Thesis, Blekinge Tekniska Högskola, Avdelningen för signalbehandling, 2009. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:bth-4143.
Повний текст джерелаPrebianca, Gicele Vergine Vieira. "Working memory capacity, lexical access and proficiency level in L2 speech production." reponame:Repositório Institucional da UFSC, 2012. http://repositorio.ufsc.br/xmlui/handle/123456789/92568.
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This study investigates (i) whether bilingual lexical access is predicted by working memory capacity (WMC) and proficiency level in L2; (ii) whether WMC and L2 proficiency interact in predicting bilingual lexical access, and (iii) the extent to which within-language competition affects bilingual lexical access. One hundred learners of English as a foreign language (L2) were submitted to three data collection sessions which comprised three tests to measure WMC, two tests to measure L2 proficiency and one test to assess bilingual lexical access. The task used to assess the main L2 ability under investigation - bilingual lexical access -, was a picture-naming task carried out under the semantic competitor paradigm. This task was composed of a control and an experimental condition. Whereas in the former subjects were required to name pictures without any interfering stimuli, in the latter they were asked to retrieve the lexical items to name the pictures under the presence of semantically related L2 word distractors. Data were analyzed quantitatively and the statistical procedures (multiple regressions, ANOVA, ANCOVA and partial correlations) revealed that, in general terms, WMC and L2 proficiency both significantly predicted bilingual lexical access. Higher spans retrieved lexical items faster than lower spans. Moreover, the facilitation effects of semantically related L2 word distractors on L2 picture-naming were shown to be an effect of task order. However, more proficient bilinguals obtained faster reaction times during the retrieval of L2 lexical items than less proficient ones, regardless of performing the control or the experimental condition first. The findings of the present study are explained mainly in respect to the interplay between automatic and controlled processes in memory retrieval and their impact on the development of L2 proficiency. Special attention is given to the way semantic/lexical representations develop, are stored, retrieved and connected in a bilingual mental lexicon.
Este estudo investiga (i) se o acesso lexical bilíngüe pode ser explicado pela capacidade de memória de trabalho (CMT) e pelo nível de proficiência em L2; (ii) se ambos os construtos interagem para explicar o acesso lexical bilíngüe e, (iii) o efeito da competição entre representações lexicais em L2 no acesso lexical bilíngüe. Cem aprendizes de Inglês como língua estrangeira foram submetidos a três sessões de coleta de dados envolvendo 3 testes para medir a capacidade de memória de trabalho, 2 testes para medir o nível de proficiência em L2 e 1 teste para mensurar o acesso lexical bilíngüe dos aprendizes. A tarefa utilizada para medir o acesso lexical foi uma tarefa de nomeação de figuras conduzida sob o paradigma de competição semântica. Essa tarefa era composta de uma condição controle e uma experimental. Enquanto na primeira condição os aprendizes deviam nomear figuras em L2 sem nenhum estímulo interferente, na segunda os mesmo deviam nomear figuras na presença de distratores semanticamente relacionados aos nomes das figuras. Os dados foram analisados quantitativamente. Os resultados revelaram que, em termos gerais, CMT e nível de proficiência em L2 explicam parte da variação em acesso lexical significativamente. Aprendizes com maior CMT recuperaram os itens lexicais mais rapidamente que aprendizes com menor CMT. Os efeitos facilitatórios produzidos por distratores semanticamente relacionados aos nomes das figuras na tarefa de nomeação em L2 foram conseqüência da ordem de execução das condições controle e experimental. Os aprendizes mais proficientes, por sua vez, apresentaram tempos de resposta mais rápidos do que aprendizes menos proficientes, independentemente de realizar a condição controle ou a experimental primeiro. Os resultados deste estudo são explicados, principalmente, em relação à interação entre processos automáticos e controlados na recuperação de informação da memória de longo-prazo e no desenvolvimento da proficiência e das representações lexicais em L2.
Johnson, Earl E. "Comment reply to Does the acceptable noise level (ANL) predict hearing aid use?" Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2013. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/2249.
Повний текст джерелаTrygg, Sebastian. "Compensation to Automate an External Glucose Level Management System for Diabetes Type 1 : Artificial Pancreas." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Institutionen för teknikvetenskaper, 2016. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-295809.
Повний текст джерелаKing, Janice E. "INTERNAL AND EXTERNAL INFLUENCES ON PROGRAM-LEVEL CURRICULUM DEVELOPMENT IN HIGHER EDUCATION FASHION MERCHANDISING PROGRAMS." OpenSIUC, 2010. https://opensiuc.lib.siu.edu/dissertations/132.
Повний текст джерелаMorris, Dwayne C. "Pulpit speech a college-level course in verbal and nonverbal style for preaching /." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN) Access this title online, 2005. http://www.tren.com.
Повний текст джерелаSinger, David. "The effect of instruction in computerized language sample analysis on the knowledge and comfort level of graduate student clinicians." Thesis, California State University, Long Beach, 2013. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=1523068.
Повний текст джерелаThis thesis describes a preexperimental, within-subject, pretest-posttest design used to measure the impact of an in-service training about computerized language sample analysis (CLSA) on the knowledge, comfort level, and implementation practices of21 graduate students in Communicative Disorders enrolled at California State University, Long Beach. Qualitative and quantitative data were collected through three surveys: one delivered during clinical practicum didactic sessions prior to the training, one on the day ofthe training, and one survey delivered 12 weeks post-training after the graduate student clinicians had an opportunity to use the computer program they learned about in the training. Results indicated that CLSA knowledge, comfort level and likelihood of implementation increased slightly immediately following the training, but were found to decline over time due to lack of exposure and practice. However, these results were not statistically significant. Findings are discussed as they relate to the current speech-language pathology literature, and possible avenues for further research into this area are explored.
Kim, Se In. "The association between the supraglottic activity and glottal stops at the sentence level." Thesis, University of Iowa, 2015. https://ir.uiowa.edu/etd/1660.
Повний текст джерелаFagelson, Marc A., and Frederick N. Martin. "The Occlusion Effect and Ear Canal Sound Pressure Level." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 1998. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/1582.
Повний текст джерелаLau, Suk-han. "The effect of type and level of noise on long-term average speech spectrum (LTASS) /." Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong, 1998. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?B17896253.
Повний текст джерелаKenny, Nicoll. "Risks and outcomes for enteral nutrition among adults with dysphagia at a tertiary level hospital in South Africa." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/15521.
Повний текст джерелаUkkonen, Merja, and Yuanyuan Feng. "The relationship between accountants and external auditors : A case study from client’s perspective on subordinate level." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Företagsekonomiska institutionen, 2013. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-207957.
Повний текст джерелаМальована, Нiна Володимирiвна, Нина Владимировна Малеванная, and Nina Volodymyrivna Malovana. "Cultural levels of speech." Thesis, Sumy State University, 2017. http://essuir.sumdu.edu.ua/handle/123456789/65147.
Повний текст джерелаSeeff-Gabriel, Belinda Kim. "An investigation of sentence-level abilities in children with different types of speech disorder." Thesis, University College London (University of London), 2006. http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/1445053/.
Повний текст джерелаLam, Lai-man Suki. "Pitch level and pitch variability in Cantonese speakers with dysarthria associated with cerebral palsy." Click to view the E-thesis via HKUTO, 2000. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record/B36207548.
Повний текст джерела"A dissertation submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the Bachelor of Science (Speech and Hearing Sciences), The University of Hong Kong, May 10, 2000." Also available in print.
Akin, Faith W., Owen D. Murnane, Peter C. Panus, Stacy K. Caruthers, Amy E. Wilkinson, and Tina M. Proffitt. "The Influence of Voluntary Tonic Emg Level on the Vestibular-Evoked Myogenic Potential." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2004. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/1789.
Повний текст джерелаRose, Veronica Joy. "Increasing Wayfinding for Long-Term Care Residents with Dementia using Spaced Retrieval Training with External Aids." The Ohio State University, 2012. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1343265527.
Повний текст джерелаJones, Anna Barbara. "Auditory comprehension : from the voice up to the single word level." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/25387.
Повний текст джерелаNaish, Daniel A. "Speech interference on residential balconies with road traffic noise." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2013. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/63527/1/Daniel_Naish_Thesis.pdf.
Повний текст джерелаIdiart, Andrés Enrique. "Coupled analysis of degradation processes in concrete specimens at the meso-level." Doctoral thesis, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/6263.
Повний текст джерелаTradicionalmente, los análisis acoplados existentes en la literatura se han realizado a nivel macroscópico, considerando el material como un medio continuo y homogéneo. Sin embargo, es bien conocido que el origen de la degradación observada a nivel macroscópico, a menudo es debida a la interacción entre los áridos y el mortero, sobre todo cuando se dan cambios de volumen diferenciales entre los dos componentes. Esta es la razón por la que el análisis mesomecánico está emergiendo como una herramienta potente para estudios de materiales heterogéneos, aunque actualmente existen escasos modelos numéricos capaces de simular un problema acoplado a esta escala de observación.
En esta tesis, la aplicabilidad del modelo meso-mecánico de elementos finitos, desarrollado en el seno del grupo de investigación durante los últimos quince años, se extiende al análisis de problemas acoplados higro-mecánicos y químico-mecánicos, con el fin de estudiar la retracción por secado y el ataque sulfático externo en muestras de hormigón. La generación numérica de mesogeometrías y mallas de elementos finitos con los áridos de mayor tamaño rodeados de la fase mortero se consigue mediante la teoría de Voronoï/Delaunay Adicionalmente, con el fin de simular las principales trayectorias de fisuración, se insertan a priori elementos junta de espesor nulo, equipados con una ley constitutiva basada en la mecánica de fractura no lineal, a lo largo de todos los contactos entre árido y matriz, y también en algunas líneas matriz-matriz.
La aportación principal de esta tesis es, conjuntamente con la realización de análisis acoplados sobre una representación mesoestructural del material, la simulación no solo de la formación y propagación de fisuras, sino también la consideración explícita de la influencia de éstas en el proceso de difusión.
Los cálculos numéricos se realizan mediante el uso de los códigos de elementos finitos DRAC y DRACFLOW, previamente desarrollados en el seno del grupo de investigación, y acoplados mediante una estrategia staggered. Las simula-ciones realizadas abarcan, entre otros aspectos, la evaluación del compor-tamiento acoplado, el ajuste de parámetros del modelo con resultados experimentales disponibles en la bibliografía, diferentes estudios del efecto de los áridos en la microfisuración inducida por el secado y las expansiones debidas al ataque sulfático, así como el efecto simultáneo de los procesos gobernados por difusión y cargas de origen mecánico. Los resultados obtenidos concuerdan con observaciones experimentales de la fisuración, el fenómeno de spalling y la evolución de las deformaciones, y muestran la capacidad del modelo para ser utilizado en el estudio de problemas acoplados en los que la naturaleza heterogénea y cuasi-frágil del material tiene un papel predominante.
Johnson, Earl E., Todd Ricketts, and Benjamin Hornsby. "The Effect of Extending High-Frequency Bandwidth on the Acceptable Noise Level (anl) of Hearing-Impaired Listeners." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2009. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/1696.
Повний текст джерела劉淑 and Suk-han Lau. "The effect of type and level of noise on long-term average speech spectrum (LTASS)." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 1998. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31251031.
Повний текст джерелаChristmann, Corinna [Verfasser], and Thomas [Akademischer Betreuer] Lachmann. "The role of stimulus complexity in auditory research of speech and non-speech on the behavioral and electrophysiological level / Corinna Christmann. Betreuer: Thomas Lachmann." Kaiserslautern : Technische Universität Kaiserslautern, 2014. http://d-nb.info/1048047008/34.
Повний текст джерелаBenigas, Jeanette E. "Using Spaced Retrieval with External Aids to Improve Use of Compensatory Strategies During Eating for Persons with Dementia." The Ohio State University, 2013. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1373826803.
Повний текст джерелаLanzi, Alyssa M. "Effects of External Memory Aid Assessment and Treatment on Everyday Task Performance of Individuals with Mild Neurocognitive Disorder." Scholar Commons, 2019. https://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/7835.
Повний текст джерелаCase, Erik S. "State Level Causes of Terrorism: Limits on Political Expression." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2009. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc12092/.
Повний текст джерелаMavrothalassitis, Paul. "2016-12-31 Investigating the impact of employee motivation on the level of external customer service within Nedbank." Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/80504.
Повний текст джерелаThe necessity for organisations to deliver exceptional service to customers remains a primary factor for sustainability. Organisations continuously seek differentiation from their competition to realise their strategic goals. The main aim of organisations is to satisfy their employees, customers, stakeholders and regulators, and in doing so they would continue to prosper and reflect a positive return on equity. Organisations strive to be market leaders in the area of customer service by ensuring that employees remain engaged and motivated at all times to ensure that a competitive advantage is evident. This study was conducted in the retail banking environment of Nedbank which investigated the link between employee motivation and how this would affect external customer service. The research results were illustrated by means of qualitative and qualitative measurement frameworks, thereby illustrating the effects of employee motivation on the levels of customer service. The study displays that employee motivation determines the outcome of service levels and the delivery of exceptional customer service by satisfied and informed employees.