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This paper presents a novel text-independent pronunciation evaluation method. The method aims at testing the mandarin Putonghua pronunciation proficiency of the dialectal speakers from every area of China. In the proposed method, 5 pronunciation proficiency levels are assigned for each phone; accordingly, 5 Single Gaussian classifiers are created to represent the 5 levels for a phone. 4 phone-level...
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Ukrayinska mova (Ukrainian Language) > 2008 > 3(28) > 120-126
The article deals with expressive types of simple verbal Ukrainian predicate in dialectal speech. Some examples are considered in the full text.
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In this paper, we present a novel keyword spotting (KWS) method derived from traditional acoustic KWS. The advantage of this method is that it doesn't need any manually transcribed data to train the acoustic model, so it can be deployed fast for KWS task dealing with small languages and dialectal speech, which the traditional KWS systems can't handle because of the lack of training data. A prototype...
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Acta Baltico-Slavica > 2006 > 30 > 567-583
All human beings are subjects of their culture, and language is central to their cultural identity. Standard languages do not possess any representative and expressive reality; meanwhile the dialects, in contrast, can be analyzed in terms of cultural perspectives, since any reality is related to place, world concept, epistemic competence, etc. Drawing on theoretical insights and research strategies...
