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The present study examined the citation patterns of Mandarin tones in prelingual deaf adults with cochelar implants or hearing aids. The results showed that the participants tried to build up tonal pattern by exploring phonetic features such as creaky voice and tonal duration. The results also indicated that although the participants had problems distinguishing T2 from T3, T2 was harder than T3 for...
This paper reports on the construction of a multi-modal Mandarin-Tibetan speech database collected from native speakers of WeiZang dialect. The Mandarin-Tibetan corpus contains 41 Tibetan sentences, 27 Chinese sentences, 30 Tibetan consonants, 4 Tibetan vowels, and 25 Tibetan monosyllables. A multi-modal data collection system was established, which comprises an ultrasound scanner, high-speed camera,...
This paper presents an overview of the studies that have been conducted with the purpose of understanding the use of brain signals as input to a speech recogniser. The studies have been categorised based on the type of the technology used with a summary of the methodologies used and achieved results. In addition, the paper gives an insight into some studies that examined the effect of the chosen stimuli...
This paper put forward a new method of observing tongue movement in ultrasound images by calculating the accelerations of tongue points during speech production. By applying this method, the current study further compared the tongue movements in producing Mandarin mid-vowel [τ], the so-called transitional vowel with those of two steady monophthongs [i] and [a] in Mandarin Chinese. The results revealed...
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