Search Results - "Richter, Caitlin"

A New Acoustic-Based Pronunciation Distance Measure by Bartelds, Martijn, Richter, Caitlin, Liberman, Mark, Wieling, Martijn

“…We present an acoustic distance measure for comparing pronunciations, and apply the measure to assess foreign accent strength in American-English by comparing…”
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Evaluating Low-Level Speech Features Against Human Perceptual Data by Richter, Caitlin, Feldman, Naomi H., Salgado, Harini, Jansen, Aren

“…We introduce a method for measuring the correspondence between low-level speech features and human perception, using a cognitive model of speech perception…”
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Neural representations for modeling variation in speech by Bartelds, Martijn, de Vries, Wietse, Sanal, Faraz, Richter, Caitlin, Liberman, Mark, Wieling, Martijn

“…•Neural acoustic models can be used to automatically model pronunciation variation.•Pronunciation variation is best captured by intermediate layers of…”
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Relative Dynamic Time Warping Comparison for Pronunciation Errors by Richter, Caitlin, Guenason, Jon

“…We propose using a dynamic time warping (DTW) difference-to-sum ratio to classify speech as either matching or diverging from a linguistic standard. This…”
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Alternation-Sensitive Phoneme Learning: Implications for Children's Development and Language Change by Richter, Caitlin

“…This dissertation develops a cognitive model describing when children learn to group distinct sound segments (allophones) into abstract equivalence classes…”
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Neural Representations for Modeling Variation in Speech by Bartelds, Martijn, de Vries, Wietse, Sanal, Faraz, Richter, Caitlin, Liberman, Mark, Wieling, Martijn

“…Variation in speech is often quantified by comparing phonetic transcriptions of the same utterance. However, manually transcribing speech is time-consuming and…”
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