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Speech synthesizer produced voices for disabled, including Stephen Hawking by Kewley-Port, Diane, M Nearey, Terrance

“…The Reflections series takes a look back on historical articles from The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America that have had a significant impact on the…”
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Identification of frequency-shifted vowels by Assmann, Peter F., Nearey, Terrance M.

“…Within certain limits, speech intelligibility is preserved with upward or downward scaling of the spectral envelope. To study these limits and assess their…”
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Testing theories of vowel inherent spectral change by Morrison, Geoffrey Stewart, Nearey, Terrance M.

“…Three competing accounts of vowel inherent spectral change in English all agree on the importance of initial formant frequencies; however, they disagree about…”
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A regression approach to vowel normalization for missing and unbalanced data by Barreda, Santiago, Nearey, Terrance M.

“…Researchers investigating the vowel systems of languages or dialects frequently employ normalization methods to minimize between-speaker variability in formant…”
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Relationship between fundamental and formant frequencies in voice preference by Assmann, Peter F., Nearey, Terrance M.

“…Covariation in the size of laryngeal and vocal tract structures leads to a moderate correlation between fundamental frequency ( F 0 ) and formant frequencies…”
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Effects of consonant environment on vowel formant patterns by Hillenbrand, J M, Clark, M J, Nearey, T M

“…A significant body of evidence has accumulated indicating that vowel identification is influenced by spectral change patterns. For example, a large-scale study…”
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Identification of resynthesized /hVd/ utterances: effects of formant contour by Hillenbrand, J M, Nearey, T M

“…The purpose of this study was to examine the role of formant frequency movements in vowel recognition. Measurements of vowel duration, fundamental frequency,…”
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Perception of vowels with missing formant peaks by Nenadić, Filip, Coulter, Pamela, Nearey, Terrance M., Kiefte, Michael

“…Although the first two or three formant frequencies are considered essential cues for vowel identification, certain limitations of this approach have been…”
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Modeling consonant-context effects in a large database of spontaneous speech recordings by Kiefte, Michael, Nearey, Terrance M.

“…Given recent interest in the analysis of naturally produced spontaneous speech, a large database of speech samples from the Canadian Maritimes was collected,…”
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The direct and indirect roles of fundamental frequency in vowel perception by BARREDA, Santiago, NEAREY, Terrance M

“…Several experiments have found that changing the intrinsic f0 of a vowel can have an effect on perceived vowel quality. It has been suggested that these shifts…”
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Assessing the importance of several acoustic properties to the perception of spontaneous speech by Podlubny, Ryan G., Nearey, Terrance M., Kondrak, Grzegorz, Tucker, Benjamin V.

“…Spoken language manifests itself as change over time in various acoustic dimensions. While it seems clear that acoustic-phonetic information in the speech…”
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Training listeners to report the acoustic correlate of formant-frequency scaling using synthetic voices by Barreda, Santiago, Nearey, Terrance M

“…The vocal tract length of a speaker is the primary determinant of the range of formant frequencies (FFs) produced by that speaker. Listeners have demonstrated…”
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A modified statistical pattern recognition approach to measuring the crosslinguistic similarity of Mandarin and English vowels by Thomson, Ron I., Nearey, Terrance M., Derwing, Tracey M.

“…This study describes a statistical approach to measuring crosslinguistic vowel similarity and assesses its efficacy in predicting L2 learner behavior. In the…”
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Speech perception as pattern recognition by Nearey, T M

“…This work provides theoretical and empirical arguments in favor of an approach to phonetics that is called double-weak. It is so called because it assumes…”
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Effects of frequency shifts on the identification of vowels and words in sentences by Assmann, Peter F., Nearey, Terrance M.

“…Studies of the effects of frequency shifts on vowel identification have shown a drop in accuracy when the spectrum envelope is shifted up or down, and when the…”
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Modeling the effects of frequency shifts on vowel identification by Nearey, Terrance M., Assmann, Peter F.

“…Previous experiments examining the effects of frequency shifts on vowel perception show that identification accuracy drops when the spectrum envelope is…”
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Effects of Place of Articulation and Vowel Context on VOT Production and Perception for French and English Stops by Nearey, Terrance M., Rochet, Bernard L.

“…The focus of this study is the nature of the secondary effects of place of articulation and vowel quality on VOT (and other acoustic properties) in the…”
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Double weak theory as a framework for discovery by Nearey, Terrance M.

“…A weak theory is not very attractive, a double-weak one even less so. The double-weak theory of speech perception serves mainly as a cover story for postponing…”
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A regression approach to vowel normalization for missing and unbalanced data by Barreda, Santiago, Nearey, Terrance M.

“…Researchers investigating the vocalic systems of languages or dialects frequently employ normalization methods to minimize between-speaker variability in…”
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Phonological and auditory context effects in the perception of synthetic liquid-plus-stop clusters by Nearey, Terrance M., Tucker, Benjamin V.

“…In experiments with English synthetic stops in the /VCCV/ disyllables /arga, alga, arda, alda/, listeners give more /‐da/ responses after /ar‐/ syllables [see,…”
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