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Praat is a free scientific software program for the analysis of speech in phonetics with which phoneticians can analyze, synthesize, and manipulate speech. In the present study, the acquisition of Mandarin Chinese stop consonants by native speakers of Uygur are analyzed by the software Praat. The results of the analysis indicate that Mandarin Chinese voiceless aspirated and unaspirated stop consonants...
Tunisian dialect is a mixture of several languages; Arabic, Berber, French, Italian, English and Spanish. In this paper, we introduce a study of two common vowels /a/ and /ε/ in tunisian dialect and french. Vowels are pronounced in tunisian context. Our study is realized in time-frequency domain. Firstly, we present our corpus and our system Visual Assistance of Speech Processing VASP, which are used...
Stops are subset of consonant sounds and exist in all languages as the case of Arabic language. Voice Onset Time (VOT) is a very important feature of stop sounds in many languages. VOT can be utilized by human auditory system to distinguish between voiced and unvoiced stops such as /p/ and /b/ in English. Similarly, VOT can be adopted by digital systems to classify and recognize stop sounds and their...
This paper describes the work based on concatenative text-tospeech synthesis system. It discusses a few perceptual and spectrogram experiments conducted on Marathi Voices (Spoken in Maharashtra, India). Marathi speech synthesizer is developed using different choice of units: words, phonemes as a database. We have synthesized the Marathi text and conducted the perceptual tests, as a result, (1) 74%...
This paper describes in detail the analysis results of the Bangla dental consonants [t], [th], [d] and [dh] analyzed through the spectral estimation techniques in four long vowel contexts [a], [i], [o], and [u] for an accurate description of their acoustic characteristics and features and the differences between the corresponding cognate sounds. Various parameters like duration of closure/voice bar,...
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